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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

November 3, 2012

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at Nov 3, 2012, 3:29 PM CDT. It was in force for 61 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: Nov 3, 2012, 3:29 PM CDT (20:29 UTC)
Expired: Nov 3, 2012, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 200 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 290 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 650 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -222 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1042 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Nov 3, 2:31 PM CDT, 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 3, 2:31 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 3, 11:57 AM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1157 AM CDT SAT NOV 3 2012

NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075-
079>082-258-041700-
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS-
NORTHERN LEA COUNTY-CENTRAL LEA COUNTY-SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY-GAINES-
DAWSON-BORDEN-SCURRY-ANDREWS-MARTIN-HOWARD-MITCHELL-
VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR-REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS-
LOVING-WINKLER-ECTOR-MIDLAND-GLASSCOCK-WARD-CRANE-UPTON-REAGAN-
DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-PECOS-PRESIDIO VALLEY-MARFA PLATEAU-
BIG BEND AREA-TERRELL-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS-
1157 AM CDT SAT NOV 3 2012 /1057 AM MDT SAT NOV 3 2012/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW
MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

A FEW STRONG STORMS COULD AFFECT PORTIONS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN AND
LOWER TRANS PECOS THIS AFTERNOON...WHICH COULD LAST INTO THE
EVENING.  GUSTY WINDS NEAR 50 MPH AND PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL
WOULD BE THE PRIMARY THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

A FEW STRONG STORMS COULD AFFECT PORTIONS OF THE DAVIS AND GLASS
MOUNTAINS...AND SURROUNDING AREAS...SUNDAY AFTERNOON.  GUSTY WINDS
NEAR 45 MPH AND PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL WOULD BE THE PRIMARY
THREATS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES...
AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
MIDLAND CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT /LOWER CASE/
HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/MIDLAND

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Nov 3, 2:29 PM CDT, 1 hour before

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Special weather statement, Nov 3, 3:29 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
329 PM CDT SAT NOV 3 2012

TXZ074-032130-
DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-
329 PM CDT SAT NOV 3 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR A STRONG THUNDERSTORM AFFECTING
NORTH CENTRAL BREWSTER AND SOUTHEASTERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTIES UNTIL 430
PM CDT...

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER EXTREME NORTHWESTERN BREWSTER
COUNTY AT 328 PM CDT...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IN ADDITION TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...
DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED. REMEMBER...IF YOU
CAN HEAR THUNDER... YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
SEEK SAFE SHELTER NOW.

&&

LAT...LON 3066 10347 3045 10329 3041 10368 3059 10372
TIME...MOT...LOC 2028Z 254DEG 11KT 3051 10360

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 3, 2:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Jeff Davis	46 min
Nov 3, 5:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Brewster	47 min
Nov 3, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	33 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.