Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2011, 8:39 PM CDT for Glasscock County, Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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
- May 9, 2011, 8:39 PM CDT (01:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2011, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Glasscock County, TX, Midland County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:39 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 6300 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
652 WUUS54 KMAF 100139 SVRMAF TXC173-329-100245- /O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0009.110510T0139Z-110510T0245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 839 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN GLASSCOCK COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... SOUTHEASTERN MIDLAND COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 835 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 9 MILES SOUTH OF SPRABERRY...OR 19 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MIDLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM IS CROSSING FM1379. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... SPRABERRY... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MEANS THAT SEVERE WEATHER IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... HAIL AN INCH IN DIAMETER OR LARGER... VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL LIKELY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE STORM MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER NOW. && LAT...LON 3209 10177 3189 10141 3167 10185 3179 10201 TIME...MOT...LOC 0139Z 220DEG 11KT 3181 10185 $$
1 follow-up statement
854 WWUS54 KMAF 100156 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 856 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2011 TXC173-329-100245- /O.CON.KMAF.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-110510T0245Z/ GLASSCOCK TX-MIDLAND TX- 856 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2011 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR EASTERN MIDLAND AND NORTHWESTERN GLASSCOCK COUNTIES... AT 852 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SPRABERRY...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MIDLAND... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM IS MOVING OVER S.H.158 BETWEEN SPRABERRY. SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE... SPRABERRY. LAT...LON 3209 10177 3189 10141 3167 10185 3179 10201 TIME...MOT...LOC 0154Z 220DEG 11KT 3186 10181 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 3:13 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | MAF | 28 hr |
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.