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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at Nov 3, 2012, 5:43 PM CDT for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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, 5:43 PM CDT (22:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 3, 2012, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
County Brewster County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 230 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 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 nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 3, 2:31 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
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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, 3 hours 14 minutes before
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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
Special weather statement, Nov 3, 5:43 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 543 PM CDT SAT NOV 3 2012 TXZ081-032330- BIG BEND AREA- 543 PM CDT SAT NOV 3 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR A STRONG THUNDERSTORM AFFECTING CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY UNTIL 630 PM CDT... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY AT 542 PM CDT...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IN ADDITION TO PENNY 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 3004 10283 2983 10293 2998 10331 3015 10323 TIME...MOT...LOC 2242Z 291DEG 19KT 3003 10317
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, 3:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 61 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.