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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2014, 5:13 PM CDT for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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 22, 2014, 5:13 PM CDT (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2014, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Brewster County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 246 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 1479 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
168
WUUS54 KMAF 222213
SVRMAF
TXC043-222315-
/O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0021.140522T2213Z-140522T2315Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
513 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 615 PM CDT
* AT 508 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER
EAST CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY...OR 26 MILES NORTHEAST OF PANTHER
JUNCTION...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
EASTERN BREWSTER COUNTY...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS... DEADLY CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN
HEAR THUNDER... YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEEK
SAFE SHELTER NOW.
&&
LAT...LON 2940 10301 3001 10313 3004 10282 2974 10277
2975 10259 2973 10262 2973 10267 2972 10268
2967 10269 2963 10273 2960 10273 2959 10276
2955 10277 2952 10280 2948 10280 2944 10283
2940 10281 2936 10284
TIME...MOT...LOC 2213Z 180DEG 15KT 2964 10291
$$1 follow-up statement
186
WWUS54 KMAF 222238
SVSMAF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
538 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2014
TXC043-222248-
/O.CAN.KMAF.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-140522T2315Z/
BREWSTER-
538 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2014
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY
IS CANCELLED...
AT 538 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAD WEAKENED.
THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 2940 10301 3001 10313 3004 10282 2974 10277
2975 10259 2973 10262 2973 10267 2972 10268
2967 10269 2963 10273 2960 10273 2959 10276
2955 10277 2952 10280 2948 10280 2944 10283
2940 10281 2936 10284
TIME...MOT...LOC 2238Z 189DEG 17KT 2977 10287
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 7:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Gaines | 28 min |
| May 22, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson | 63 min |
| May 22, 3:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Culberson | 3 hr |
| May 22, 4:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 55 min | |
| May 22, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos, Terrell | 60 min |
| May 22, 6:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 29 min | |
| May 22, 6:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 33 min | |
| May 22, 6:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Pecos | 31 min |
| May 22, 6:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Reeves | 29 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.