Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 18, 2011, 7:28 PM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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
- Mar 18, 2011, 7:28 PM CDT (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2011, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Ector County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 456 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3058 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
857
WUUS54 KMAF 190028
SVRMAF
TXC135-190130-
/O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0002.110319T0028Z-110319T0130Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
728 PM CDT FRI MAR 18 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
ECTOR COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 830 PM CDT
* AT 726 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
WEST ODESSA...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
WEST ODESSA...
ODESSA...
GOLDSMITH...
NORTH COWDEN...
GARDENDALE...
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 3208 10270 3208 10230 3190 10230 3166 10229
3166 10271 3203 10272
TIME...MOT...LOC 0028Z 188DEG 15KT 3182 10249
$$1 follow-up statement
232
WWUS54 KMAF 190100
SVSMAF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
800 PM CDT FRI MAR 18 2011
TXC135-190130-
/O.CON.KMAF.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-110319T0130Z/
ECTOR TX-
800 PM CDT FRI MAR 18 2011
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM CDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN ECTOR COUNTY...
AT 754 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NORTH COWDEN...OR ABOUT 7 MILES
NORTHWEST OF ODESSA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE...
GARDENDALE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS... DEADLY CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. REMEMBER... IF YOU CAN
HEAR THUNDER... YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEEK
SAFE SHELTER NOW.
&&
LAT...LON 3184 10233 3193 10259 3201 10267 3208 10265
3208 10230 3190 10230
TIME...MOT...LOC 0100Z 225DEG 17KT 3196 10241
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 9:27 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Howard | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 9:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard, Martin | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 5:12 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MAF | 48 hr | |
| Mar 19, 5:12 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MAF | 38 hr |
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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.