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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 171, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 7, 2005Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2005, 5:28 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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: Jun 7, 2005, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2005, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 139 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2117 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -205 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 861 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 7, 2:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 2:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	63 min
Jun 6, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	49 min
Jun 7, 7:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	70 min
Jun 7, 7:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	3 hr
Jun 6, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.