Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2012, 2:45 PM CDT for Jeff Davis 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2012, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2012, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Jeff Davis County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 210 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 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 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 536 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -474 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1789 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
442
WUUS54 KMAF 151945
SVRMAF
TXC243-152045-
/O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0201.120615T1945Z-120615T2045Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
245 PM CDT FRI JUN 15 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 345 PM CDT
* AT 241 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 2
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. ONE STORM WAS NEAR MCDONALD
OBSERVATORY. A SECOND STORM WAS IN OPEN COUNTRY 20 MILES NORTHEAST
OF MCDONALD OBSERVATORY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST
AT 5 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
MCDONALD OBSERVATORY...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS... DEADLY CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN
HEAR THUNDER... YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEEK
SAFE SHELTER NOW.
&&
LAT...LON 3097 10404 3094 10391 3088 10378 3069 10368
3055 10406 3070 10422
TIME...MOT...LOC 1943Z 238DEG 4KT 3066 10405
$$1 follow-up statement
313
WWUS54 KMAF 152017
SVSMAF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
317 PM CDT FRI JUN 15 2012
TXC243-152045-
/O.CON.KMAF.SV.W.0201.000000T0000Z-120615T2045Z/
JEFF DAVIS TX-
317 PM CDT FRI JUN 15 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM CDT
FOR EASTERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY...
AT 316 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
DETECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR MCDONALD OBSERVATORY...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF
FORT DAVIS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE...MCDONALD
OBSERVATORY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS... DEADLY CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. REMEMBER... IF YOU CAN
HEAR THUNDER... YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEEK
SAFE SHELTER NOW.
&&
LAT...LON 3097 10404 3094 10391 3088 10378 3069 10368
3055 10406 3070 10422
TIME...MOT...LOC 2017Z 238DEG 4KT 3070 10409
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Brewster, Pecos | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson, Gaines | 54 min |
| Jun 15, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Jeff Davis | 62 min |
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.