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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 6, 2012Crane County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2012, 8:52 PM CDT for Crane County, Texas. It was in force for 23 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 6, 2012, 8:52 PM CDT (01:52 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2012, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Crane County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:54 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 6, 9:09 PM CDT	HAIL 1.25	8 Ene Tubbs Corner, TX	QUARTER TO HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. POSSIBLE WALL CLOUD.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 61 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 4830 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

670 
WUUS54 KMAF 070152
SVRMAF
TXC103-070215-
/O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0028.120407T0152Z-120407T0215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
852 PM CDT FRI APR 6 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CRANE COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 850 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF 
  TUBBS CORNER REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING QUARTER 
  SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS NEAR 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS 
  LOCATED NEAR TUBBS CORNER...OR 18 MILES WEST OF CRANE...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
  CENTRAL CRANE COUNTY...
  STATE HIGHWAY 329...
  FARM TO MARKET ROAD 1233...

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 3165 10254 3150 10232 3131 10264 3137 10275
TIME...MOT...LOC 0150Z 221DEG 16KT 3140 10264

$$

1 follow-up statement

757 
WWUS54 KMAF 070159
SVSMAF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
859 PM CDT FRI APR 6 2012

TXC103-070215-
/O.CON.KMAF.SV.W.0028.000000T0000Z-120407T0215Z/
CRANE TX-
859 PM CDT FRI APR 6 2012

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM CDT
FOR NORTHERN CRANE COUNTY...

AT 854 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE
HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR TUBBS CORNER...OR ABOUT 16 MILES WEST OF CRANE...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE...
CENTRAL CRANE COUNTY...STATE HIGHWAY 329 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 244
AND 254. 

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.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER... HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
MIDLAND.

&&

LAT...LON 3139 10273 3165 10254 3150 10232 3131 10264
TIME...MOT...LOC 0158Z 239DEG 13KT 3141 10260

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane	60 min
Apr 6, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Upton	62 min
Apr 7, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	53 min
Apr 7, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	62 min
Apr 7, 4:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Mitchell	29 min
Apr 7, 4:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Mitchell	34 min
Apr 7, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Pecos	62 min
Apr 7, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	62 min
Apr 7, 5:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Mitchell	3 hr
Apr 7, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	56 min
Apr 7, 5:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Pecos	3 hr
Apr 7, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane	31 min
Apr 7, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	28 min
Apr 7, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	62 min
Apr 7, 6:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Brewster	3 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.