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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2005, 7:41 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 2005, 7:41 PM CDT (00:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2005, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mitchell County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 127 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3403 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 31, 1:57 PM CDT, 5 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 1:57 PM CDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 31, 1:48 PM CDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 148 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 2005 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-011848- ANDREWS-BIG BEND AREA-BORDEN-CENTRAL LEA COUNTY-CRANE- DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-DAWSON-ECTOR-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS-GAINES- GLASSCOCK-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY- HOWARD-LOVING-MARFA PLATEAU-MARTIN-MIDLAND-MITCHELL- NORTHERN LEA COUNTY-PECOS-PRESIDIO VALLEY-REAGAN- REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS-SCURRY-SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY- TERRELL-UPTON-VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR-WARD-WINKLER- 148 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 2005 (1248 PM MDT TUE MAY 31 2005) THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS EVENING OVER THE OUTLOOK AREA AS AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS THE REGION. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SEVERE OVER THE PERMIAN BASIN AND THE EXTREME EASTERN SECTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS... HOWEVER ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY OVER THE EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN AND THE WESTERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO OCCUR WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. AFTER MIDNIGHT...A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE HIGH PLAINS OF WEST TEXAS AND EASTERN NEW MEXICO. THIS COMPLEX WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST OVER THE EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN AND THE WESTERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE COMPLEX MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE THE REST OF THE WEEK. THE BEST CHANCE WILL BE THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY. SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY RAIN ARE THE PRIMARY CONCERNS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY THROUGH THE EVENING. LOCAL OFFICIALS ACROSS THE AREA SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER APPROACH THIS EVENING. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES... AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN MIDLAND CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT (LOWER CASE) HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MIDLAND
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 31, 7:08 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 708 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 2005 TXZ052-010045- HOWARD TX- 708 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 2005 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT... THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR EASTERN HOWARD COUNTY. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER COAHOMA AND INTERSTATE 20 AT 708 PM CDT...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM IS INTENSIFYING AND HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE. HAIL AND WINDS GUSTS OVER 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. PEOPLE IN EASTERN HOWARD COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 8:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 57 min |
| May 31, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 35 min |
| May 31, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 57 min |
| May 31, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 51 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.