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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at Oct 13, 2013, 7:06 AM CDT for Loving County, Texas. It was in force for 54 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
- Oct 13, 2013, 7:06 AM CDT (12:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2013, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
County Loving County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:09 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 462 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 889 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
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 Oct 13, 5:36 AM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 5:36 AM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 13, 3:14 AM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 314 AM CDT SUN OCT 13 2013 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-132000- 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- 314 AM CDT SUN OCT 13 2013 /214 AM MDT SUN OCT 13 2013/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AREAS OF RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AND MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO TODAY WITH AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON...CONTINUING THROUGH TONIGHT. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM CDT FOR THE BIG BEND AREA...STOCKTON PLATEAU...LOWER TRANS PECOS AND THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN...GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM LAMESA TO LAJITAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN WILL BEGIN TO MOVE OUT OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS MONDAY MORNING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 1 PM CDT MONDAY GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM LAMESA TO LAJITAS. .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 05
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 13, 7:06 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 706 AM CDT SUN OCT 13 2013 NMZ028-033-034-TXZ058-059-131300- LOVING-SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY-CENTRAL LEA COUNTY-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS- REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS- 606 AM MDT SUN OCT 13 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AFFECTING NORTH CENTRAL REEVES...NORTHWESTERN LOVING...SOUTHEASTERN EDDY AND SOUTHERN LEA COUNTIES UNTIL 700 AM MDT/800 AM CDT/... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES SOUTH OF HALFWAY AT 604 AM MDT/704 AM CDT/...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE LOCATED ON THE EDDY AND LEA COUNTY LINE 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HALFWAY...AND 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF ORLA. BOTH STORMS ARE MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IN ADDITION TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS TO 45 MPH...DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEEK SAFE SHELTER NOW. && LAT...LON 3274 10398 3264 10316 3185 10356 3185 10387 TIME...MOT...LOC 1204Z 178DEG 15KT 3222 10370
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 4:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 10 more | 29 hr |
| Oct 13, 10:14 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 11:30 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Dawson, Gaines, Martin | 60 min |
| Oct 13, 12:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 1:26 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Gaines | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 1:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Martin | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 1:34 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Ector, Midland | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 1:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Andrews | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 1:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 2:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Gaines | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 3:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 3:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Midland | 35 min |
| Oct 13, 3:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 4:19 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Crane, Ward | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Ector, Midland, Upton | 35 min |
| Oct 13, 4:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Dawson | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 4:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Glasscock | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 5:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Glasscock | 33 min |
| Oct 13, 6:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Howard | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 6:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Crane, Upton | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 6:46 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Ector, Midland | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 8:37 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Lea | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 11:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 12:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 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.