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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 212, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 13, 2006Andrews County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2006, 7:53 PM CDT for Andrews County, Texas. It was in force for 67 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: Aug 13, 2006, 7:53 PM CDT (00:53 UTC)
Expired: Aug 13, 2006, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Andrews County, TX

The radar

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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 Aug 13, 2:33 PM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 2:33 PM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 13, 2:13 PM CDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 13, 3:41 PM CDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 13, 4:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
440 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0424 PM     TSTM WND DMG     FORT STOCKTON           30.89N 102.89W
08/13/2006                   PECOS              TX   PUBLIC

            TWO HUNDRED POUND FEEDERS WERE TOPPLED IN THUNDERSTORM
            WINDS THAT HIT THE CITY OF FORT STOCKTON. WINDS WERE
            ESTIMATED NEAR 60 MPH. IN ADDITION...COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF
            PEA SIZE HAIL HAS COVERED THE ROADS IN AND AROUND FORT
            STOCKTON...INCLUDING ALONG U.S. 385 SOUTH OF FORT
            STOCKTON. TX DPS ALSO REPORTED 1-2 INCHES OF STANDING
            WATER ALONG U.S. 385 SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON.

&&

02

Local storm report, Aug 13, 4:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
443 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0424 PM     TSTM WND DMG     FORT STOCKTON           30.89N 102.89W
08/13/2006                   PECOS              TX   PUBLIC

            TWO HUNDRED POUND FEEDERS WERE TOPPLED IN THUNDERSTORM
            WINDS THAT HIT THE CITY OF FORT STOCKTON. WINDS WERE
            ESTIMATED NEAR 60 MPH. IN ADDITION...COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF
            PEA SIZE HAIL HAS COVERED THE ROADS IN AND AROUND FORT
            STOCKTON...INCLUDING ALONG U.S. 385 SOUTH OF FORT
            STOCKTON. TX DPS ALSO REPORTED 1-2 INCHES OF STANDING
            WATER ALONG U.S. 385 SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON.

&&

02

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 13, 7:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Ector	3 hr
Aug 13, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	60 min
Aug 13, 10:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Ector	3 hr
Aug 13, 11:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Gaines	3 hr
Aug 13, 11:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Dawson	3 hr
Aug 14, 4:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	MAF	Andrews, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Loving and 6 more	3 days

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2006 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.