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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 7, 2012Crane County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 7, 2012, 6:01 PM CDT for Crane County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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: Apr 7, 2012, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
Expired: Apr 7, 2012, 6:32 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Crane County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 7, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 63 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: 993 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -242 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1189 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

235 
WUUS54 KMAF 072301
SVRMAF
TXC103-080000-
/O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0036.120407T2301Z-120408T0000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
601 PM CDT SAT APR 7 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 556 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 11
  MILES NORTHWEST OF CRANE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...     
  CRANE...FM 1601 NORTHWEST OF CRANE...US HIGHWAY 385 NEAR CRANE...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.

&&

LAT...LON 3139 10232 3126 10246 3148 10263 3158 10247
TIME...MOT...LOC 2300Z 327DEG 9KT 3148 10248

$$

1 follow-up statement

206 
WWUS54 KMAF 072332
SVSMAF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
632 PM CDT SAT APR 7 2012

TXC103-072342-
/O.CAN.KMAF.SV.W.0036.000000T0000Z-120408T0000Z/
CRANE TX-
632 PM CDT SAT APR 7 2012

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN CRANE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

AT 632 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAD WEAKENED.
THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS CANCELLED.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.

&&

LAT...LON 3139 10232 3126 10246 3148 10263 3158 10247
TIME...MOT...LOC 2332Z 327DEG 9KT 3141 10243

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane	23 min
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, 6:17 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.