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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 160, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 31, 2009Gaines County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2009, 9:36 PM CDT for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 54 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, 2009, 9:36 PM CDT (02:36 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2009, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Gaines County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 31, 7:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
704 PM CDT SUN MAY 31 2009

TXZ063-070-010030-
GLASSCOCK-REAGAN-
704 PM CDT SUN MAY 31 2009

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT...

THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR NORTHEASTERN REAGAN AND
SOUTHEASTERN GLASSCOCK COUNTIES.

A THUNDERSTORM WITH SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WAS LOCATED OVER NORTH
CENTRAL REAGAN COUNTY AT 704 PM CDT...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.

MARBLE SIZED HAIL...WINDS GUSTING TO AROUND 50 MPH...AND DEADLY
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE.

PEOPLE IN NORTHEASTERN REAGAN AND SOUTHEASTERN GLASSCOCK COUNTIES
SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND
REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

Special weather statement, May 31, 7:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 31, 8:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
814 PM CDT SUN MAY 31 2009

TXZ051-010145-
MARTIN-
814 PM CDT SUN MAY 31 2009

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT...

THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR CENTRAL MARTIN COUNTY.

AT 811 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED TWO
THUNDERSTORMS WITH SMALL HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF MARBLES AND GUSTY WINDS
NEAR 50 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR TARZAN...AND 4 MILES
NORTH NORTHWEST OF COURTNEY.

PEOPLE IN CENTRAL MARTIN COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION
CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER
CONDITIONS.

GUSTY WINDS... SMALL HAIL... HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE
POSSIBLE.

Special weather statement, May 31, 8:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
818 PM CDT SUN MAY 31 2009

NMZ029-033-034-TXZ045-050-010145-
CENTRAL LEA COUNTY-SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY-NORTHERN LEA COUNTY-GAINES-
ANDREWS-
818 PM CDT SUN MAY 31 2009

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT...

THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR EAST CENTRAL LEA...NORTHWESTERN
ANDREWS AND WESTERN GAINES COUNTIES.

AT 815 PM CDT /715 PM MDT/...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED
FROM 25 MILES EAST OF MCDONALD NEW MEXICO...TO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF
KNOWLES NEW MEXICO...TO JUST NORTHWEST OF HOBBS NEW MEXICO.  THIS
LINE OF STRONG STORMS IS MOVING EAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH.

GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE
POSSIBLE.

70

Special weather statement, May 31, 8:48 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 31, 9:32 PM CDT, 4 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
May 31, 7:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Howard	3 hr
May 31, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Reagan	45 min
May 31, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard	38 min
May 31, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	30 min
May 31, 7:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Midland	3 hr
May 31, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Reagan	64 min
May 31, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	48 min
May 31, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson, Gaines	44 min
May 31, 9:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland	78 min
May 31, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Reagan	43 min
May 31, 11:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Reagan	53 min
May 31, 11:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	66 min
Jun 1, 12:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	67 min
Jun 1, 12:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Andrews, Howard, Martin	3 hr
Jun 1, 12:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	64 min
Jun 1, 1:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland	6 hr
Jun 1, 2:19 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Ector	116 min
Jun 1, 2:44 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Midland	2 hr

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.