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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 24, 2010Brewster County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2010, 9:54 PM CDT for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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, 9:54 PM CDT (02:54 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2010, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Brewster County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 238 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: 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

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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 May 24, 9:03 PM CDT, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 9:03 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 24, 1:32 PM CDT, 8 hours 22 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

Special weather statement, May 24, 7:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 24, 9:41 PM CDT, 13 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
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, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	61 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2010 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.