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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 26, 2005Upton County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2005, 3:35 AM CST for Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 26, 2005, 3:35 AM CST (09:35 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2005, 4:00 AM CST
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Upton County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:36 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 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 64 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2093 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 320 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KMAF 260937
SVRMAF
TXC461-261000-
/O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0021.050326T0935Z-050326T1000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
335 AM CST SAT MAR 26 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  UPTON COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 400 AM CST

* AT 330 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL. THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF RANKIN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
  A SECOND STRONG TO SEVERE STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS RURAL NORTHWESTERN
  UPTON COUNTY NEAR ALONG TEXAS HIGHWAY 329.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  STATE HIGHWAY 329 EAST OF RANKIN...
  THE INTERSECTION OF STATE HIGHWAY 329 AND FARM TO MARKET 1492...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MEANS THAT SEVERE WEATHER IS OCCURRING
OR IS IMMINENT. WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... HAIL THREE-QUARTERS
OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER OR LARGER... VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE ALL LIKELY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE STORM
MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER NOW.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.

LAT...LON 3165 10230 3110 10230 3110 10178 3143 10178

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 26, 3:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane	33 min
Mar 26, 4:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	26 min

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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.