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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 11, 2012, 7:11 PM CDT for Culberson County, Loving County, Reeves County, Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 64 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 11, 2012, 7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2012, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Culberson County, TX, Loving County, TX, Reeves County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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.
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 11, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 733 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1111 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
416
WUUS54 KMAF 120011
SVRMAF
NMC015-025-TXC109-301-389-120115-
/O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0073.120412T0011Z-120412T0115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
611 PM MDT WED APR 11 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN LOVING COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...
SOUTH CENTRAL LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...
SOUTHEASTERN EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...
EXTREME NORTHWESTERN REEVES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...
EXTREME NORTHEASTERN CULBERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 715 PM MDT/815 PM CDT/
* AT 608 PM MDT...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 7 MILES
NORTHWEST OF RED BLUFF LAKE...OR 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF MENTONE...
MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
RED BLUFF LAKE...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
DOPPLER RADAR HAS DETECTED WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. WHILE NOT
IMMEDIATELY LIKELY... A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A TORNADO IS
SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE... SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING/1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING/ FOR SOUTHEAST NEW
MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3219 10360 3197 10333 3180 10362 3187 10398
3197 10418 3213 10414
TIME...MOT...LOC 0011Z 275DEG 32KT 3202 10393
$$1 follow-up statement
869
WWUS54 KMAF 120038
SVSMAF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
738 PM CDT WED APR 11 2012
TXC109-389-120048-
/O.CAN.KMAF.SV.W.0073.000000T0000Z-120412T0115Z/
REEVES TX-CULBERSON TX-
738 PM CDT WED APR 11 2012
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EXTREME NORTHEASTERN CULBERSON
AND EXTREME NORTHWESTERN REEVES COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
AT 738 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAD MOVED
EAST OF THESE AREAS. THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS
CANCELLED.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3195 10388 3203 10390 3216 10383 3219 10360
3197 10333 3180 10362
TIME...MOT...LOC 0038Z 275DEG 32KT 3202 10371
$$
NMC015-025-TXC301-120115-
/O.CON.KMAF.SV.W.0073.000000T0000Z-120412T0115Z/
LOVING TX-LEA NM-EDDY NM-
638 PM MDT WED APR 11 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM
MDT/815 PM CDT/ FOR SOUTHEASTERN EDDY...SOUTH CENTRAL LEA AND
NORTHERN LOVING COUNTIES...
AT 636 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF SLASH RANCH...OR ABOUT 23 MILES NORTH
OF MENTONE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE...EXTREME
SOUTHWESTERN LEA COUNTY...EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL LOVING COUNTY AND
NORTH CENTRAL LOVING COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
DOPPLER RADAR HAS DETECTED WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. WHILE NOT
IMMEDIATELY LIKELY... A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A TORNADO IS
SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE... SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING/1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING/ FOR SOUTHEAST NEW
MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3195 10388 3203 10390 3216 10383 3219 10360
3197 10333 3180 10362
TIME...MOT...LOC 0038Z 275DEG 32KT 3202 10371
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Loving, Winkler | 64 min |
| Apr 11, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos, Reeves, Ward | 62 min |
| Apr 11, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving, Winkler | 28 min |
| Apr 12, 3:37 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MAF | 11 hr | |
| Apr 12, 3:37 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MAF | 15 hr | |
| Apr 12, 11:44 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | MAF | 13 hr | |
| Apr 12, 1:56 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MAF | 31 hr | |
| Apr 11, 7:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Apr 11, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 27 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.