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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 25, 2010Brewster County, Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2010, 2:58 PM CDT for Brewster County, Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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 25, 2010, 2:58 PM CDT (19:58 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2010, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Brewster County, TX, Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 198 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 199 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: 1404 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -163 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 802 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 25, 12:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 12:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 1:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
108 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 2010

NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075-
079>082-258-261815-
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-
108 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 2010 /1208 PM MDT TUE MAY 25 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 ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND
MUCH OF WEST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SOME THUNDERSTORMS
WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. AN ISOLATED TORNADO WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE.
THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL...WHICH MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THERE WILL BE AT LEAST A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH
THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK...MAINLY ALONG AND WEST OF THE PECOS
RIVER. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE ALONG WITH LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINFALL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS...THE TRANS PECOS
REGION AND 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 25, 11:20 AM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 25, 2:46 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 25, 2:54 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
254 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 2010

TXZ058-074-075-252030-
PECOS-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS-
254 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 2010

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR AN INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORM
AFFECTING EAST CENTRAL JEFF DAVIS...SOUTH CENTRAL REEVES AND WEST
CENTRAL PECOS COUNTIES UNTIL 330 PM CDT...

A QUICKLY INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORM WITH HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF
PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS NEAR 40 TO 50 MPH WAS LOCATED 16 MILES SOUTH
OF TOYAVALE AT 253 PM CDT...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL
CONTINUE TO MOVE ALONG AND NEAR STATE HIGHWAY 17 TOWARDS BALMORHEA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IN ADDITION TO HAIL AND STRONG WINDS... DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER... YOU
ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEEK SAFE SHELTER NOW.

&&

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, 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, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.