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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 25, 2013Brewster County, Jeff Davis County, Presidio County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2013, 3:50 PM CDT for Brewster County, Jeff Davis County, Presidio County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 2013, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2013, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Brewster County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Presidio County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 254 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: 1190 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -371 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1492 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 248 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 25, 1:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 1:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 1:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 25, 2:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 3:35 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 8:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Presidio	29 min
Jun 25, 2:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Presidio	63 min
Jun 25, 3:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Brewster	25 min
Jun 25, 3:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Crane	31 min
Jun 25, 5:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	27 min
Jun 25, 5:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	23 min
Jun 25, 5:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Borden	35 min
Jun 25, 6:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Crane	28 min
Jun 25, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden	45 min
Jun 25, 6:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF		29 min
Jun 25, 6:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Ector	37 min
Jun 25, 6:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Brewster	34 min
Jun 25, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	34 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.