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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 11, 2012, 11:36 PM CDT for Loving County, Winkler County, Texas. It was in force for 28 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, 11:36 PM CDT (04:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 2012, 12:04 AM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Loving County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 113 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.
202 WUUS54 KMAF 120436 SVRMAF TXC301-495-120530- /O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0076.120412T0436Z-120412T0530Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1136 PM CDT WED APR 11 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN LOVING COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... WEST CENTRAL WINKLER COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 1230 AM CDT * AT 1132 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 SLASH RANCH...OR 10 MILES NORTH OF MENTONE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... CENTRAL LOVING COUNTY... EASTERN LOVING COUNTY... WESTERN WINKLER COUNTY... 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 3198 10324 3168 10318 3166 10360 3195 10369 TIME...MOT...LOC 0434Z 260DEG 14KT 3185 10352 $$
2 follow-up statements
432 WWUS54 KMAF 120455 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1155 PM CDT WED APR 11 2012 TXC301-495-120530- /O.CON.KMAF.SV.W.0076.000000T0000Z-120412T0530Z/ LOVING TX-WINKLER TX- 1155 PM CDT WED APR 11 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1230 AM CDT FOR WEST CENTRAL WINKLER AND EASTERN LOVING COUNTIES... AT 1153 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER EAST CENTRAL LOVING COUNTY...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF MENTONE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE...EAST CENTRAL LOVING COUNTY...EXTREME WEST CENTRAL WINKLER COUNTY AND EXTREME EAST CENTRAL LOVING COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS... DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. REMEMBER... IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER... YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEEK SAFE SHELTER NOW. && LAT...LON 3171 10346 3196 10358 3198 10324 3168 10318 TIME...MOT...LOC 0454Z 260DEG 14KT 3186 10343 $$
649 WWUS54 KMAF 120504 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1204 AM CDT THU APR 12 2012 TXC301-495-120515- /O.CAN.KMAF.SV.W.0076.000000T0000Z-120412T0530Z/ LOVING TX-WINKLER TX- 1204 AM CDT THU APR 12 2012 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL WINKLER AND EASTERN LOVING COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... AT 1205 AM 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. LAT...LON 3171 10346 3196 10358 3198 10324 3168 10318 TIME...MOT...LOC 0505Z 260DEG 14KT 3187 10338 $$
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, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos, Reeves, Ward | 62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.