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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2010, 9:14 PM CDT for Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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 24, 2010, 9:14 PM CDT (02:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2010, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Terrell County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 2797 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 967 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 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 24, 9:03 PM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 9:03 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 24, 1:32 PM CDT, 7 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 132 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2010 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-251845- 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- 132 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2010 /1232 PM MDT MON MAY 24 2010/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY ACROSS THE PERMIAN BASIN...TRANS PECOS REGIONS AND BIG BEND AREAS. ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. SOME OF THESES STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE PERMIAN BASIN...TRANS PECOS AND BIG BEND THROUGH THIS EVENING. CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED IN THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY EVENING. MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES NEAR 10 PERCENT AND SUSTAINED WEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG WITH HIGH FIRE DANGER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA ON TUESDAY. THOUGH THE THREAT OF WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE LOW...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME MARGINALLY SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREATS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE TRANS PECOS AND PORTIONS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS NEED TO MONITOR DEVELOPING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. 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, May 24, 3:51 PM CDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
351 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0339 PM HAIL 7 SSE GIRVIN 30.98N 102.34W
05/24/2010 E1.00 INCH PECOS TX PUBLIC
&&
CHRIS.DANIELSLocal storm report, May 24, 3:53 PM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
353 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0339 PM TSTM WND GST 7 SSE GIRVIN 30.98N 102.34W
05/24/2010 E60.00 MPH PECOS TX PUBLIC
ESTIMATED 60 MPH WIND GUST 7 MILES SSE OF GIRVIN. SEVERAL
LARGE TREE LIMBS SNAPPED.
&&
CHRIS.DANIELSSpecial weather statement, May 24, 7:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 58 min |
| May 24, 7:34 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 3 hr |
| May 24, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 39 min |
| May 24, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 65 min |
| May 24, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 59 min |
| May 24, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 66 min |
| May 24, 10:21 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Terrell | 3 hr |
| May 25, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos | 62 min |
| May 25, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Reeves | 45 min |
| May 25, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 60 min |
| May 25, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson, Jeff Davis, Reeves | 58 min |
| May 25, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 67 min |
| May 25, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 67 min |
| May 25, 6:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Brewster | 3 hr |
| May 25, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 65 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.