Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2012, 8:59 PM CDT for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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 16, 2012, 8:59 PM CDT (01:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2012, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Brewster County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 1059 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1457 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
781 WUUS54 KMAF 170159 SVRMAF TXC043-170245- /O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0004.120317T0159Z-120317T0245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 859 PM CDT FRI MAR 16 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 858 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 NEAR TERLINGUA...OR 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAJITAS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... TERLINGUA RANCH LODGE... PERSIMMON GAP... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. && LAT...LON 2978 10322 2928 10296 2923 10359 2937 10373 TIME...MOT...LOC 0159Z 229DEG 35KT 2936 10358 $$
1 follow-up statement
328 WWUS54 KMAF 170225 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 925 PM CDT FRI MAR 16 2012 TXC043-170245- /O.CON.KMAF.SV.W.0004.000000T0000Z-120317T0245Z/ BREWSTER TX- 925 PM CDT FRI MAR 16 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY... AT 921 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF TERLINGUA RANCH LODGE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHISOS BASIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE... PANTHER JUNCTION... CHISOS BASIN... US HIGHWAY 385 SOUTH OF PERSIMMON GAP... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS... DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. REMEMBER... IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER... YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEEK SAFE SHELTER NOW. && LAT...LON 2924 10346 2947 10348 2966 10316 2928 10296 TIME...MOT...LOC 0223Z 244DEG 28KT 2937 10337 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 4:42 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MAF | Andrews, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Loving and 6 more | 40 hr |
| Mar 17, 7:59 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Dawson, Gaines, Loving, Ward, Winkler | 3 hr |
| Mar 17, 2:22 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | 24 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.