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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2012, 1:41 AM CDT for Dawson County, Martin County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min. 2 reports 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
- Mar 19, 2012, 1:41 AM CDT (06:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2012, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Dawson County, TX, Martin County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 1:50 AM CDT | HAIL 2 | Lenorah, TX | PEA SIZE TO 2 INCHES COVERING THE GROUND. |
| Mar 19, 2:45 AM CDT | HAIL 1 | Ackerly, TX | PEA TO QUARTER SIZED HAIL. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 11 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 786 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2412 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
510 WUUS54 KMAF 190641 SVRMAF TXC115-317-190745- /O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0009.120319T0641Z-120319T0745Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 141 AM CDT MON MAR 19 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN DAWSON COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... MARTIN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 245 AM CDT * AT 139 AM 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 6 MILES WEST OF COURTNEY...OR 10 MILES NORTH OF MIDLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... COURTNEY... TARZAN... STANTON... GRADY... LENORAH... BROWN... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3263 10181 3261 10171 3212 10174 3209 10219 TIME...MOT...LOC 0642Z 230DEG 30KT 3216 10200 $$
1 follow-up statement
289 WWUS54 KMAF 190659 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 159 AM CDT MON MAR 19 2012 TXC115-317-190745- /O.CON.KMAF.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-120319T0745Z/ DAWSON TX-MARTIN TX- 159 AM CDT MON MAR 19 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 AM CDT FOR MARTIN AND SOUTHEASTERN DAWSON COUNTIES... AT 157 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LENORAH...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH OF STANTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3263 10181 3261 10171 3212 10174 3209 10219 TIME...MOT...LOC 0659Z 230DEG 30KT 3231 10185 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 53 min |
| Mar 18, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Ward, Winkler | 61 min |
| Mar 18, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Winkler | 63 min |
| Mar 18, 11:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 2:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson, Howard, Martin, Scurry | 66 min |
| Mar 19, 2:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard, Martin | 39 min |
| Mar 19, 3:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland, Upton | 56 min |
| Mar 19, 3:21 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | MAF | Loving, Ward, Winkler | 16 hr |
| Mar 19, 3:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 29 min |
| Mar 19, 4:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Midland | 61 min |
| Mar 19, 4:47 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Howard | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 5:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Howard, Mitchell | 53 min |
| Mar 19, 5:50 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 3 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.