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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2012, 6:26 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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 27, 2012, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2012, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Pecos County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 636 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 956 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
343
WUUS54 KMAF 272326
SVRMAF
TXC371-280030-
/O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0149.120527T2326Z-120528T0030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
626 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 730 PM CDT
* AT 624 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL OR LARGER
AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED
OVER CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY BETWEEN U.S. 285 AND U.S. 385...OR 21 MILES
SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY...
SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM... TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT LIFE AND
PROPERTY.
&&
LAT...LON 3064 10232 3019 10265 3031 10289 3048 10299
3076 10297 3075 10272
TIME...MOT...LOC 2325Z 346DEG 7KT 3059 10280
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 22 min |
| May 27, 3:41 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MAF | 18 hr | |
| May 27, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Reeves | 63 min |
| May 27, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 60 min |
| May 27, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 51 min |
| May 27, 5:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Pecos | 110 min |
| May 27, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 62 min |
| May 27, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 33 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.