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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 7, 2013Reeves County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2013, 12:48 PM CDT for Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 42 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, 12:48 PM CDT (17:48 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 2013, 1:30 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

County Reeves County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:52 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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, 12:08 PM CDT, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 12:08 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 3:30 AM CDT, 9 hours 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 7, 11:38 AM CDT, 1 hour 10 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

Special weather statement, Aug 7, 12:05 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1205 PM CDT WED AUG 7 2013

TXZ058-074-075-071730-
PECOS-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS-
1205 PM 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 1230 PM CDT...

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BALMORHEA AT
1204 PM CDT...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS
INTERSTATE 10 EAST OF BALMORHEA AND COULD RESULT IN STRONG
CROSSWINDS ACROSS THE INTERSTATE BETWEEN 1210 AND 1230 PM CDT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

GUSTY WINDS TO 55 MPH... SMALL HAIL... LOCAL HEAVY RAIN... AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3121 10374 3104 10325 3073 10353 3080 10378
TIME...MOT...LOC 1704Z 202DEG 27KT 3088 10361

Special weather statement, Aug 7, 12:48 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1248 PM CDT WED AUG 7 2013

TXZ058-067-071830-
WARD-REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS-
1248 PM CDT WED AUG 7 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AFFECTING
CENTRAL REEVES AND WEST CENTRAL WARD COUNTIES UNTIL 130 PM CDT...

A SMALL CLUSTER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTH OF
VERHALEN AT 1246 PM CDT...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS MAY
PRODUCE OUTFLOW WINDS THAT AFFECT THE VERHALEN AREA...HIGHWAYS 17 AND
285...AND I-20 WEST OF PECOS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

GUSTY WINDS 50 TO 55... SMALL HAIL... LOCAL HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3141 10382 3145 10349 3134 10319 3099 10343
      3104 10373
TIME...MOT...LOC 1746Z 201DEG 11KT 3109 10359

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, 11:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF		37 min
Aug 7, 12:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reeves	25 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.