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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 22, 2014Brewster County, Texas

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 archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2014-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1479 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2014-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 119 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 21, 7:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFGaines28 min
May 22, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCulberson63 min
May 22, 3:57 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMAFCulberson3 hr
May 22, 4:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAF55 min
May 22, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster, Pecos, Terrell60 min
May 22, 6:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAF29 min
May 22, 6:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAF33 min
May 22, 6:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFPecos31 min
May 22, 6:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFReeves29 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.