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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 246, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 14, 2009Brewster County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2009, 10:37 PM CDT for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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 14, 2009, 10:37 PM CDT (03:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2009, 11:27 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Brewster County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 258 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: 3669 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 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 14, 9:50 PM CDT, 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 9:50 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 11:53 AM CDT, 10 hours 44 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1153 AM CDT SUN JUN 14 2009

NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075-
079>082-258-151700-
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-
1153 AM CDT SUN JUN 14 2009 /1053 AM MDT SUN JUN 14 2009/

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 FROM THE PRESIDIO VALLEY
NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS...UPPER TRANS PECOS...
SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS AND PERMIAN BASIN THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD SEVERE LEVELS...WITH
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL BEING THE MAIN THREATS. LOCATIONS
ACROSS THE NORTHERN TEXAS PERMIAN BASIN AND ROLLING PLAINS...ALONG AND
EAST OF HIGHWAY 385 AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20 ARE AT THE GREATEST
RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER LATER TODAY.

ABUNDANT ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE IN PLACE ACROSS THE REGION WILL ALSO
INCREASE THE POTENTIAL HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING
OF LOW LYING AREAS.  NEVER DRIVE ACROSS A FLOODED ROADWAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE MONDAY AND
TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE PRESIDIO VALLEY...DAVIS
MOUNTAINS...UPPER TRANS PECOS...AND THE PERMIAN BASIN. SOME OF
THESE STORMS COULD AGAIN REACH SEVERE THRESHOLDS...WITH DAMAGING
WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE MAIN THREATS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY LATER THIS AFTERNOON.

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

Local storm report, Jun 14, 9:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 14, 9:47 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 14, 9:59 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 14, 10:02 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 14, 10:16 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 14, 10:29 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1029 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 2009

TXZ074-081-150400-
BIG BEND AREA-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-
1029 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 2009

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT...

THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR NORTHWESTERN BREWSTER COUNTY.

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALPINE AT 1029
PM CDT...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH...SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	59 min
Jun 14, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	63 min
Jun 14, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Jeff Davis, Pecos	58 min
Jun 14, 8:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	3 hr
Jun 14, 9:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Brewster, Pecos	24 min
Jun 14, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Upton	53 min
Jun 15, 4:21 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	MAF		16 hr
Jun 15, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos, Reeves	66 min
Jun 15, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	52 min
Jun 15, 4:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Pecos	115 min
Jun 15, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	44 min
Jun 14, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2009 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009

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.