Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 2012, 10:17 PM CDT for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 58 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 15, 2012, 10:17 PM CDT (03:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2012, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Brewster County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 1589 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1411 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
956
WUUS54 KMAF 160317
SVRMAF
TXC043-160415-
/O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0002.120316T0317Z-120316T0415Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1017 PM CDT THU MAR 15 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT
* AT 1014 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 OVER
CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY ALONG US HIGHWAY 385...OR 31 MILES NORTH
OF PANTHER JUNCTION...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
CENTRAL AND EASTERN BREWSTER COUNTY SOUTH OF US HIGHWAY 90 AND
NORTHEAST OF PERSIMMON GAP...
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 2972 10315 2986 10315 2989 10259 2973 10266
2973 10267 2972 10268 2967 10269 2963 10273
2961 10273 2959 10275
TIME...MOT...LOC 0315Z 269DEG 21KT 2976 10307
$$1 follow-up statement
656
WWUS54 KMAF 160341
SVSMAF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1041 PM CDT THU MAR 15 2012
TXC043-160415-
/O.CON.KMAF.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120316T0415Z/
BREWSTER TX-
1041 PM CDT THU MAR 15 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 PM CDT
FOR EAST CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY...
AT 1038 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED OVER EAST CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY...OR ABOUT 34 MILES
NORTHEAST OF PANTHER JUNCTION...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE...
EAST CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY SOUTH OF US HIGHWAY AND NORTH
OF FM 2627...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS... DEADLY CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN
HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEEK
SAFE SHELTER NOW.
&&
LAT...LON 2969 10305 2987 10296 2989 10259 2973 10266
2973 10267 2972 10268 2967 10269 2963 10273
2961 10273 2959 10275
TIME...MOT...LOC 0339Z 269DEG 21KT 2976 10292
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 62 min |
| Mar 16, 4:07 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MAF | 25 hr | |
| Mar 16, 12:52 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MAF | 31 hr | |
| Mar 16, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos | 59 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.