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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 225, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2008, 11:04 PM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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 24, 2008, 11:04 PM CDT (04:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2008, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Ector County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 382 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
- 443 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2710 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
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 24, 6:44 PM CDT, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 6:44 PM CDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 644 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2008 .AVIATION... ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SE NEW MEXICO ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. EXCEPT FOR CNM...ALL OTHER TAF SITES SHOULD REMAIN RAIN FREE. ONGOING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO MAY DEVELOP INTO A LARGE CLUSTER/LINE OF STORMS AND TRACK E/SE INTO WEST TEXAS AND SE NM. MOST SOUTHERN EXTENT OF THIS LINE LOOKS TO BE NEAR THE HOB REGION AND THUS INCLUDED A TEMPO FOR GUSTY WINDS AND TSRA . OTHERWISE...S/SE WINDS WILL REMAIN ELEVATED THROUGH THE NIGHT AND THEN INCREASE AND BECOME GUSTY BY TOMORROW AFTERNOON. SCT TO BKN CLOUDS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE PERIOD. THE NEXT 24 HOURS WILL BE DOMINATED BY VFR CONDITIONS IN ALL AREAS BUT MAY DROP TO MVFR IN CNM AND HOB. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 149 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2008/ DISCUSSION... OPPORTUNITIES FOR THUNDERSTORMS (ISOLATED TO CHANCE) WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK AND INTO THE WEEKEND. AN UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE AREA WILL REMAIN ANCHORED ACROSS MEXICO AND NEW MEXICO. UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK SOUTHEAST TOWARD THE TEXAS PANHANDLE/SOUTH PLAINS AND IMPINGE UPON A LEE TROUGH CENTERED ACROSS THE WEST TEXAS/NEW MEXICO BORDER. THE GFS40 850 TO 700 MILLIBAR THETA E RIDGE AGREED AMAZINGLY WELL WITH THE NAM 80 GRAPHICAL PRECIPITATION OUTPUT ESPECIALLY DURING THE DAYTIME THROUGH FRIDAY. THOUGHT THAT THE NAM PRECIPITATION OUTPUT HOWEVER WAS TOO LOW AT NIGHT (AS WELL AS THE GFS) CONSIDERING THE CONSISTENT AMOUNT OF SHORTWAVES IN THE NORTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT AND THE AFOREMENTIONED THETA E RIDGE FORECASTED THROUGH FRIDAY. PRECIPITATION CHANCES WILL CONTINUE INTO THE WEEKEND (AND MAY EVEN INCREASE) AS FORECASTED UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES APPEAR TO GET TRAPPED INSIDE THE RIDGE OVER WEST TEXAS. CONTINUED ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED POPS OVER THE REGION. WITH VERY WARM TEMPERATURES CONTINUING THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS WITH MODERATE SHEAR IN PLACE A FEW STORMS EACH DAY AND NIGHT COULD BECOME SEVERE BUT NOT EXPECTING WIDESPREAD EVENTS AT THIS TIME. && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NM...NONE. TX...NONE. && MEFFER/99
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 1:04 PM CDT, 10 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 104 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2008 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-251815- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS- NORTHERN LEA COUNTY-CENTRAL LEA COUNTY-SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY-GAINES- DAWSON-BORDEN-SCURRY-ANDREWS-MARTIN-HOWARD-MITCHELL- VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR- REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS-LOVING-WINKLER-ECTOR-MIDLAND- GLASSCOCK-WARD-CRANE-UPTON-REAGAN-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA- PECOS-PRESIDIO VALLEY-MARFA PLATEAU-BIG BEND AREA-TERRELL- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- 104 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2008 /1204 PM MDT TUE JUN 24 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL THE MAIN THREATS. WILDFIRES STARTED BY LIGHTNING WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE... WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HAIL BEING A LESSER THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS...BUT MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOON AND AT NIGHT. ISOLATED STORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL... IN ADDITION TO WILDFIRES STARTED BY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 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://WEATHER.GOV/MIDLAND
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 5:37 PM CDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 537 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2008 NMZ027-028-TXZ058-258-242300- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS- REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- 437 PM MDT TUE JUN 24 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT... THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL CULBERSON AND SOUTH CENTRAL EDDY COUNTIES. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHWESTERN EDDY COUNTY AT 437 PM MDT OR 537 PM CDT...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. AREAS IMPACTED ARE QUEEN AND US HIGHWAY 62/180. WINDS GUSTING TO 50 MPH... HAIL... LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE.
Local storm report, Jun 24, 8:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 59 min |
| Jun 24, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 59 min |
| Jun 24, 9:03 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Gaines | 3 hr |
| Jun 24, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 38 min |
| Jun 25, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 22 min |
| Jun 25, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 41 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.