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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2013, 11:38 AM CDT. It was in force for 37 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 7, 2013, 11:38 AM CDT (16:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2013, 12:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 186 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2335 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 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 7, 6:26 AM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 6:26 AM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 11:38 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1138 AM CDT WED AUG 7 2013 TXZ058-074-075-071715- PECOS-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS- 1138 AM CDT WED AUG 7 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AFFECTING EAST CENTRAL JEFF DAVIS...SOUTH CENTRAL REEVES AND WEST CENTRAL PECOS COUNTIES UNTIL 1215 PM CDT... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 19 MILES SOUTH OF BALMORHEA NEAR STAR MOUNTAIN AT 1138 AM CDT...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... GUSTY WINDS TO 55 MPH ... SMALL HAIL... LOCAL HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE. && LAT...LON 3100 10375 3092 10335 3061 10362 3067 10382 TIME...MOT...LOC 1638Z 201DEG 11KT 3071 10369
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 7:15 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Howard | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 7:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Howard | 34 min |
| Aug 6, 7:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Borden | 53 min |
| Aug 7, 12:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Reeves | 25 min |
| Aug 7, 12:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Reeves | 42 min |
| Aug 7, 2:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Winkler | 28 min |
| Aug 7, 3:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 3:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 28 min | |
| Aug 7, 3:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Pecos | 62 min |
| Aug 7, 4:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 4:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Gaines | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 4:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Terrell | 25 min |
| Aug 7, 5:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Borden | 63 min |
| Aug 7, 5:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Cochran | 62 min |
| Aug 7, 6:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 3 hr |
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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.