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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 13, 2010Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2010, 8:46 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 59 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 13, 2010, 8:46 PM CDT (01:46 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2010, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:48 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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 240 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: 2800 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1233 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.5

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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 13, 8:06 PM CDT, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 8:06 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 13, 8:21 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 13, 5:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 13, 5:19 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 8:12 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 8:39 PM CDT, 7 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 14, 12:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Winkler	68 min
May 14, 12:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Martin	63 min
May 14, 1:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Martin, Midland	56 min
May 14, 1:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Winkler	38 min
May 14, 1:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector	34 min
May 14, 1:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Mitchell	17 min
May 14, 1:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Midland	6 hr
May 14, 1:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Martin, Midland	36 min
May 14, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector	62 min
May 14, 1:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Midland	31 min
May 14, 1:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Winkler	29 min
May 14, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Midland	65 min
May 14, 2:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Ector, Midland	3 hr
May 14, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector, Ward, Winkler	55 min
May 14, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	60 min
May 14, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson, Howard, Martin	35 min
May 14, 2:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Martin, Midland	35 min
May 14, 2:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Midland	32 min
May 14, 3:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard	28 min
May 14, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Winkler	60 min
May 14, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Martin, Midland	54 min
May 14, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Mitchell	60 min
May 14, 3:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Howard	3 hr
May 14, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	63 min
May 14, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Crane, Ector, Martin, Midland, Upton	52 min
May 14, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard, Martin	30 min
May 14, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Ector, Midland, Pecos, Upton, Ward	64 min
May 14, 5:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Martin	3 hr
May 14, 5:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	MAF	Crane, Ector, Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Midland and 5 more	35 hr
May 14, 5:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Upton, Ward	27 min
May 14, 5:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Crane, Midland, Upton	3 hr
May 14, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland, Reagan, Upton	58 min
May 14, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Upton	59 min
May 14, 6:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Mitchell	3 hr
May 14, 6:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Reagan	33 min
May 14, 6:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Reagan	31 min
May 14, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Reagan, Upton	61 min
May 14, 1:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	53 min
May 14, 2:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Lea	24 min
May 14, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	35 min
May 14, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	57 min
May 14, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	53 min
May 14, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Eddy	35 min
May 14, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy, Lea	55 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.