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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2010, 4:18 PM CDT for Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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 23, 2010, 4:18 PM CDT (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2010, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Reeves County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 2293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -222 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 715 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 23, 3:36 PM CDT, 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 3:36 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 23, 4:15 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 415 PM CDT SUN MAY 23 2010 TXZ058-232145- REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS- 415 PM CDT SUN MAY 23 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AFFECTING CENTRAL REEVES COUNTY UNTIL 445 PM CDT... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF VERHALEN AT 415 PM CDT...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... GUSTY WINDS... 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 30 min |
| May 22, 7:43 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| May 22, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 31 min |
| May 22, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 44 min |
| May 22, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 26 min |
| May 23, 4:59 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MAF | 17 hr | |
| May 23, 2:47 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MAF | 14 hr | |
| May 23, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves, Ward | 62 min |
| May 23, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reeves | 28 min |
| May 23, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos, Reeves | 32 min |
| May 23, 6:30 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Reeves | 3 hr |
| May 23, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos, Reeves | 32 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.