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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 11, 2012, 8:58 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 62 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 11, 2012, 8:58 PM CDT (01:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2012, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Crane County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Ward County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 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 11, 9:30 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 3 Se Grandfalls, TX |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 82 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.
755
WUUS54 KMAF 120158
SVRMAF
TXC103-371-389-475-120300-
/O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0075.120412T0158Z-120412T0300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
858 PM CDT WED APR 11 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL CRANE COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...
EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...
SOUTHEASTERN WARD COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...
EXTREME EAST CENTRAL REEVES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
* AT 855 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
ROYALTY...OR 17 MILES SOUTH OF MONAHANS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
GRANDFALLS...
ROYALTY...
IMPERIAL...
TUBBS CORNER...
CORDONA LAKE...
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.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3158 10283 3151 10250 3124 10248 3125 10312
3145 10312
TIME...MOT...LOC 0158Z 272DEG 22KT 3136 10292
$$1 follow-up statement
706
WWUS54 KMAF 120223
SVSMAF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
923 PM CDT WED APR 11 2012
TXC103-371-389-475-120300-
/O.CON.KMAF.SV.W.0075.000000T0000Z-120412T0300Z/
CRANE TX-PECOS TX-WARD TX-REEVES TX-
923 PM CDT WED APR 11 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
FOR EXTREME EAST CENTRAL REEVES...SOUTHEASTERN WARD...EXTREME NORTH
CENTRAL PECOS AND CENTRAL CRANE COUNTIES...
AT 922 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR GRANDFALLS...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTH OF MONAHANS...
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE...
IMPERIAL...TUBBS CORNER AND CORDONA LAKE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS... DEADLY CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. REMEMBER... IF YOU CAN
HEAR THUNDER... YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEEK
SAFE SHELTER NOW.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3158 10283 3151 10250 3124 10248 3125 10312
3145 10312
TIME...MOT...LOC 0224Z 272DEG 22KT 3133 10281
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson, Loving, Reeves | 64 min |
| Apr 11, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Loving, Winkler | 64 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 |
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.