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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 15, 2010, 7:30 PM CDT for Crane County, Ector County, Ward County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 15, 2010, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 2010, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Crane County, TX, Ector County, TX, Ward County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 302 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
- 389 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2265 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
542 WUUS54 KMAF 160030 SVRMAF TXC103-135-475-160130- /O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0252.100916T0030Z-100916T0130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 730 PM CDT WED SEP 15 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN ECTOR COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... NORTHEASTERN WARD COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... NORTHWESTERN CRANE COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 728 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MONAHANS SANDHILLS STATE PARK...OR 10 MILES EAST OF MONAHANS AND 5 MILES SOUTH OF INTERSTATE I-20...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... MONAHANS SANDHILLS STATE PARK... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS... DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER... YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEEK SAFE SHELTER NOW. && LAT...LON 3161 10249 3146 10268 3157 10285 3172 10274 TIME...MOT...LOC 0029Z 135DEG 12KT 3161 10272 $$
1 follow-up statement
512
WWUS54 KMAF 160103
SVSMAF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
803 PM CDT WED SEP 15 2010
TXC135-160114-
/O.CAN.KMAF.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-100916T0130Z/
ECTOR TX-
803 PM CDT WED SEP 15 2010
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ECTOR COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
AT 804 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAD WEAKENED.
THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS CANCELLED.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
&&
LAT...LON 3161 10249 3146 10268 3157 10285 3165 10279
3165 10261
TIME...MOT...LOC 0104Z 135DEG 12KT 3169 10282
$$
TXC103-475-160130-
/O.CON.KMAF.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-100916T0130Z/
WARD TX-CRANE TX-
803 PM CDT WED SEP 15 2010
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM CDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN CRANE AND NORTHEASTERN WARD COUNTIES...
AT 800 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR MONAHANS SANDHILLS STATE PARK...OR ABOUT 7 MILES
NORTHEAST OF MONAHANS...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS... DEADLY CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. REMEMBER... IF YOU CAN
HEAR THUNDER... YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEEK
SAFE SHELTER NOW.
&&
LAT...LON 3161 10249 3146 10268 3157 10285 3165 10279
3165 10261
TIME...MOT...LOC 0104Z 135DEG 12KT 3169 10282
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Ward | 38 min |
| Sep 15, 9:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Crane, Pecos, Upton | 116 min |
| Sep 16, 2:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Jeff Davis | 108 min |
| Sep 16, 5:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Reeves, Ward | 119 min |
| Sep 16, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Martin | 21 min |
| Sep 16, 5:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Culberson, Loving, Reeves | 111 min |
| Sep 16, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 40 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.