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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 17, 2010Jeff Davis County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2010, 1:34 PM CDT for Jeff Davis County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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 17, 2010, 1:34 PM CDT (18:34 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 2010, 2:15 PM CDT
In force
41 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 18:36 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, 6.6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2010-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2459 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 2010-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2459 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
702 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.8

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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 17, 12:35 PM CDT, 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 12:35 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 17, 1:12 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
112 PM CDT MON MAY 17 2010

TXZ074-171900-
DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-
112 PM CDT MON MAY 17 2010

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS
AFFECTING NORTHEASTERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY UNTIL 200 PM CDT...

A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WAS LOCATED
FROM NORTH CENTRAL JEFF DAVIS COUNTY TO EAST CENTRAL JEFF DAVIS
COUNTY AT 112 PM CDT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN MIDLAND.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines66 min
May 16, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines39 min
May 17, 2:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward, Mitchell40 min
May 17, 2:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos, Reeves56 min
May 17, 2:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster60 min
May 17, 3:24 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFBrewster36 min
May 17, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCulberson, Jeff Davis, Reeves63 min
May 17, 3:42 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFBrewster33 min
May 17, 4:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCulberson, Jeff Davis53 min
May 17, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster60 min
May 17, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving, Reeves, Ward55 min
May 17, 4:28 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFBrewster32 min
May 17, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster55 min
May 17, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving54 min
May 17, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCulberson, Loving, Reeves44 min
May 17, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster63 min
May 17, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy60 min
May 17, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy, Lea62 min
May 17, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy53 min
May 17, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy60 min
May 17, 5:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy, Lea54 min
May 17, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy56 min
May 17, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy, Lea62 min
May 17, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy59 min
May 17, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea57 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.