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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2013, 2:01 PM CDT. It was in force for 29 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
- Aug 6, 2013, 2:01 PM CDT (19:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2013, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -265 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2192 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 6, 11:55 AM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 11:55 AM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1155 AM CDT TUE AUG 6 2013
.DISCUSSION...
See aviation discussion below.
&&
.AVIATION...
Mid level moist axis has moved ewd increasing the chance for storms
to move of the mtns and into/near PEQ/FST and have opted to include
PROB30 groups there, TEMPO groups may eventually need to be added
early. Any storms will be favored to produce strong downburst winds.
The only other concern will be for those interest affected by
density altitude considerations due to the intense heat.
&&
.MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NM...NONE.
TX...HEAT ADVISORY FROM 7 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 AM CDT THURSDAY FOR
THE FOLLOWING ZONES... BIG BEND AREA...CRANE...ECTOR...
GLASSCOCK...HOWARD...LOVING...MARTIN...MIDLAND...MITCHELL...
PECOS...PRESIDIO VALLEY...REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS
PECOS...TERRELL...WARD...WINKLER.
&&Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 1:18 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 118 PM CDT TUE AUG 6 2013 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-071830- 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- 118 PM CDT TUE AUG 6 2013 /1218 PM MDT TUE AUG 6 2013/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT. AFTER HIGH TEMPERATURES OF 100 TO 109 TODAY THERE WILL BE LITTLE RELIEF TONIGHT ACROSS THE LOWER ELEVATIONS WITH LOWS FROM AROUND 75 TO LOWER 80S. THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF A LAMESA... MIDLAND... TO SANDERSON LINE. DOWNBURST WIND GUSTS OVER 50 MPH AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY EXCESSIVE HEAT WILL CONTINUE WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE TRANS PECOS...ALONG THE RIO GRANDE...AND PARTS OF THE BASIN. A HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT. .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, Aug 6, 2:01 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 201 PM CDT TUE AUG 6 2013 TXZ058-074-075-061930- PECOS-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS- 201 PM CDT TUE AUG 6 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS AFFECTING EAST CENTRAL JEFF DAVIS...NORTH CENTRAL BREWSTER...SOUTH CENTRAL REEVES AND WEST CENTRAL PECOS COUNTIES UNTIL 230 PM CDT... A THUNDERSTORM WITH SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 55 MPH WAS LOCATED 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SARAGOSA AT 159 PM CDT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM IS PART OF A LARGER AREA OF STORMS THAT EXTEND SOUTHEASTWARD TO NORTHEAST OF ALPINE. THESE STORM TOO ARE CAPABLE OF GUSTY WINDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... STRONG GUSTY WINDS... SMALL HAIL... LOCAL HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE. && LAT...LON 3111 10346 3045 10315 3031 10345 3101 10375 TIME...MOT...LOC 1859Z 236DEG 12KT 3086 10354
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 2:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Pecos | 36 min |
| Aug 6, 3:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Pecos | 25 min |
| Aug 6, 3:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Ward | 23 min |
| Aug 6, 3:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Brewster, Pecos | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 3:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Pecos | 54 min |
| Aug 6, 3:53 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 4:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 5:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Ector, Midland | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 6:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 65 min | |
| Aug 6, 6:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Glasscock | 49 min |
| Aug 6, 6:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 6:24 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Glasscock, Midland, Reagan, Upton | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 6:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Howard | 28 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.