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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 257, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2009, 1:23 PM CDT for Culberson County, Jeff Davis County, Reeves 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 2009, 1:23 PM CDT (18:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2009, 1:48 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Culberson County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Reeves County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 202 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 1961 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 786 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
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 18, 12:51 PM CDT, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 12:51 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 12:50 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1250 PM CDT THU JUN 18 2009 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-191800- 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- 1250 PM CDT THU JUN 18 2009 /1150 AM MDT THU JUN 18 2009/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY...MAINLY FROM THE SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS...SOUTH THROUGH THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS AND PRESIDIO VALLEY. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL THE MAIN THREATS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY FROM THE SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS...SOUTH THROUGH THE BIG BEND REGION. DUE TO COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF MOISTURE IN THE ATMOSPHERE...AND THE POSSIBILITY OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PERSISTENTLY MOVING NORTHWARD OVER THE SAME AREAS... HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING WILL BE A THREAT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING. LOCATIONS ALONG AND WEST OF A HOBBS...KERMIT...FORT STOCKTON AND BIG BEND REGION WILL BE THE MOST SUSCEPTIBLE TO THESE HEAVY RAINS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY THROUGH AT LEAST MONDAY ACROSS WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... ESPECIALLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT PLAINS. THE MAIN THREAT FROM ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE HEAVY RAINFALL... THOUGH MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL OR WINDS CANNOT BE RULED OUT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. 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 18, 12:57 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1257 PM CDT THU JUN 18 2009 TXZ074-080-181830- DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-MARFA PLATEAU- 1257 PM CDT THU JUN 18 2009 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT... THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR CENTRAL JEFF DAVIS AND NORTH CENTRAL PRESIDIO COUNTIES. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 23 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT DAVIS AT 1257 PM CDT...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY AND NORTHERN PRESIDIO COUNTY. BOTH OF THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH...HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH ALL OF THESE STORMS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis, Presidio | 59 min |
| Jun 17, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson, Jeff Davis | 42 min |
| Jun 18, 12:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 13 more | 49 hr |
| Jun 18, 3:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Pecos, Reeves | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 6:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 63 min |
| Jun 17, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 37 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2009Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.