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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2010, 1:41 PM CDT for Jeff Davis County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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
- Aug 9, 2010, 1:41 PM CDT (18:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2010, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Jeff Davis County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 230 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:43 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 1124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1282 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 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 Aug 9, 12:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 12:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 1:02 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 102 PM CDT MON AUG 9 2010 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-101130- 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- 102 PM CDT MON AUG 9 2010 /1202 PM MDT MON AUG 9 2010/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING ACROSS WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. THE MAIN CONCERN WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH COULD RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...A FEW STORMS COULD REACH NEAR SEVERE LIMITS PRODUCING BRIEF WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 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, Aug 9, 1:27 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 127 PM CDT MON AUG 9 2010 TXZ080-091900- MARFA PLATEAU- 127 PM CDT MON AUG 9 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NICKEL SIZED HAIL AND 40 TO 55 MPH WINDS AFFECTING NORTH CENTRAL PRESIDIO COUNTY UNTIL 200 PM CDT... A THUNDERSTORM WITH HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WAS LOCATED OVER CENTRAL PRESIDIO COUNTY 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARFA NEAR FARM TO MARKET ROAD 2810 AT 126 PM CDT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... GUSTY WINDS... HAIL... HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE. &&
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 1:33 PM CDT, 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 1:09 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Loving, Reeves | 111 min |
| Aug 9, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis, Presidio | 56 min |
| Aug 9, 2:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Brewster, Jeff Davis, Pecos | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 3:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 3:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Brewster | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 39 min |
| Aug 9, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 61 min |
Nearby
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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.