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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 175, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 14, 2010Gaines County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2010, 1:12 PM CDT for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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
Jun 14, 2010, 1:12 PM CDT (18:12 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2010, 2:15 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Gaines County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:14 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 97 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2010-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2913 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2010-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 143 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2913 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
733 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
178 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.5
Supercell composite
8.0

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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 Jun 14, 12:25 PM CDT, 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 12:25 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 1:07 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
107 PM CDT MON JUN 14 2010

TXZ045-141830-
GAINES-
107 PM CDT MON JUN 14 2010

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AFFECTING
NORTH CENTRAL GAINES COUNTY UNTIL 130 PM CDT...

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF LOOP AT 106 PM
CDT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

AREAS IMPACTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE SEAGRAVES...LOOP AND STATE
HIGHWAY 83.

THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY TO NICKEL SIZED
HAIL...STRONG WIND GUSTS...AND HEAVY RAIN.

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.

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos60 min
Jun 13, 7:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster38 min
Jun 13, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos59 min
Jun 13, 9:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos, Reeves40 min
Jun 14, 11:53 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchMAFAndrews, Borden, Dawson, Gaines, Howard, Martin and 2 more19 hr
Jun 14, 2:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines61 min
Jun 14, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson, Gaines60 min
Jun 14, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Pecos, Ward40 min
Jun 14, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor58 min
Jun 14, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden, Dawson55 min
Jun 14, 5:26 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFBorden, Dawson49 min
Jun 14, 5:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos42 min
Jun 14, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos46 min
Jun 14, 6:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFDawson3 hr
Jun 14, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor, Midland60 min
Jun 14, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Pecos56 min
Jun 14, 6:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEctor, Midland107 min
Jun 14, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin50 min
Jun 14, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos56 min
Jun 14, 6:56 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMAFPecos3 hr
Jun 14, 6:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2010Every 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.