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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2013, 12:30 PM CDT for Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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
- May 10, 2013, 12:30 PM CDT (17:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2013, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Terrell County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:31 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 1511 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 833 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 323 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 17.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
708 WUUS54 KMAF 101730 SVRMAF TXC443-101830- /O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0021.130510T1730Z-130510T1830Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1230 PM CDT FRI MAY 10 2013 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL TERRELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 130 PM CDT * AT 1227 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER CENTRAL TERRELL COUNTY...OR 7 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF SANDERSON... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... CENTRAL TERRELL COUNTY... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH... PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL... AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. && LAT...LON 3034 10196 3008 10191 3009 10239 3027 10240 TIME...MOT...LOC 1728Z 268DEG 21KT 3018 10228 $$
1 follow-up statement
602
WWUS54 KMAF 101804
SVSMAF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
104 PM CDT FRI MAY 10 2013
TXC443-101830-
/O.CON.KMAF.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-130510T1830Z/
TERRELL TX-
104 PM CDT FRI MAY 10 2013
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 130 PM CDT
FOR CENTRAL TERRELL COUNTY...
AT 1259 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED OVER CENTRAL TERRELL COUNTY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTH OF
DRYDEN ALONG HIGHWAY 349...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE...CENTRAL
TERRELL COUNTY NEAR HIGHWAY 349 BETWEEN MILE MARKER 473 AND 477.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH... PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL... AND DEADLY
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
&&
LAT...LON 3013 10216 3030 10219 3031 10212 3034 10196
3011 10192
TIME...MOT...LOC 1800Z 266DEG 24KT 3021 10206
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 35 min |
| May 10, 11:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 61 min | |
| May 10, 11:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 54 min |
| May 10, 12:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 39 min | |
| May 10, 12:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Howard | 54 min |
| May 10, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 25 min |
| May 10, 1:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 57 min |
| May 10, 2:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Reagan | 56 min |
| May 10, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 34 min |
| May 10, 3:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 26 min | |
| May 10, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 42 min |
| May 10, 3:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 26 min | |
| May 10, 4:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Terrell | 60 min |
| May 10, 4:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 43 min | |
| May 10, 4:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Culberson | 37 min |
| May 10, 4:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Andrews | 34 min |
| May 10, 4:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Jeff Davis | 35 min |
| May 10, 4:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Jeff Davis | 31 min |
| May 10, 5:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Jeff Davis | 32 min |
| May 10, 5:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Pecos | 32 min |
| May 10, 6:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Pecos | 30 min |
| May 10, 6:19 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Pecos | 116 min |
| May 10, 6:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Presidio | 36 min |
| May 10, 6:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Pecos | 33 min |
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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.