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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 7, 2012, 7:18 PM CDT for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 36 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, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2012, 7:54 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Midland County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3049 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
694 WUUS54 KMAF 080018 SVRMAF TXC329-080115- /O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0039.120408T0018Z-120408T0115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 718 PM CDT SAT APR 7 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN MIDLAND COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 716 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM EAST CENTRAL MIDLAND COUNTY TO SOUTHWESTERN MIDLAND COUNTY...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MIDLAND TO 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ODESSA...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... SOUTHERN MIDLAND COUNTY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20... 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3167 10179 3167 10228 3182 10228 3189 10179 TIME...MOT...LOC 0017Z 301DEG 4KT 3182 10182 3172 10225 $$
1 follow-up statement
165 WWUS54 KMAF 080054 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 754 PM CDT SAT APR 7 2012 TXC329-080104- /O.CAN.KMAF.SV.W.0039.000000T0000Z-120408T0115Z/ MIDLAND TX- 754 PM CDT SAT APR 7 2012 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN MIDLAND COUNTY IS CANCELLED... AT 754 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE LINE OF STORMS THAT PROMPTED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAVE WEAKENED. THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS CANCELLED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3167 10179 3167 10228 3182 10228 3189 10179 TIME...MOT...LOC 0054Z 301DEG 4KT 3174 10180 3169 10219 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 53 min |
| Apr 7, 8:14 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Crane, Ector, Glasscock, Midland, Reagan, Upton | 3 hr |
| Apr 7, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 58 min |
| Apr 7, 9:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Crane, Reagan, Upton | 3 hr |
| Apr 7, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 34 min |
| Apr 7, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 60 min |
| Apr 7, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 67 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2012Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2012
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.