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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 17, 2010Brewster County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2010, 2:45 PM CDT for Brewster 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 17, 2010, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2010, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Brewster County, TX

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 17, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 238 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: 1405 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -186 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 700 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.1

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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, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 12:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 17, 1:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 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.

&&

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	66 min
May 16, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	39 min
May 17, 1:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis	41 min
May 17, 2:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard, Mitchell	40 min
May 17, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos, Reeves	56 min
May 17, 3:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Brewster	36 min
May 17, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson, Jeff Davis, Reeves	63 min
May 17, 3:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Brewster	33 min
May 17, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson, Jeff Davis	53 min
May 17, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	60 min
May 17, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Loving, Reeves, Ward	55 min
May 17, 4:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Brewster	32 min
May 17, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	55 min
May 17, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Loving	54 min
May 17, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson, Loving, Reeves	44 min
May 17, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	63 min
May 17, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	60 min
May 17, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy, Lea	62 min
May 17, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	53 min
May 17, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	60 min
May 17, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy, Lea	54 min
May 17, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	56 min
May 17, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy, Lea	62 min
May 17, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	59 min
May 17, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	57 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.