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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 278, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

July 22, 2009Presidio County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2009, 6:34 PM CDT for Presidio County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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: Jul 22, 2009, 6:34 PM CDT (23:34 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2009, 7:06 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Presidio County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 291 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: 1668 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 930 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 188 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 Jul 22, 2:22 PM CDT, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 2:22 PM CDT, 4 hours 12 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
Jul 21, 10:15 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Pecos	3 hr
Jul 21, 10:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Terrell	3 hr
Jul 22, 1:12 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Pecos	3 hr
Jul 22, 1:34 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	99 min
Jul 22, 8:31 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	3 hr
Jul 22, 10:17 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Ector, Midland	3 hr
Jul 22, 11:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Ector, Martin, Midland	3 hr
Jul 22, 5:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Jeff Davis, Presidio	3 hr
Jul 21, 9:05 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Eddy	115 min
Jul 21, 9:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Eddy	64 min
Jul 22, 4:29 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Eddy, Lea	3 hr
Jul 22, 6:11 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Eddy, Lea	3 hr
Jul 22, 7:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Eddy, Lea	3 hr
Jul 22, 9:13 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Eddy, Lea	3 hr
Jul 22, 9:27 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Eddy, Lea	3 hr

Nearby

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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.