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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at Jun 8, 2014, 10:13 AM CDT for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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
- Jun 8, 2014, 10:13 AM CDT (15:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2014, 10:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
County Gaines County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:13 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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -585 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1160 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 453 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Jun 8, 6:29 AM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 6:29 AM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 3:26 AM CDT, 6 hours 47 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 326 AM CDT SUN JUN 8 2014 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-090830- 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- 326 AM CDT SUN JUN 8 2014 /226 AM MDT SUN JUN 8 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE TRANS PECOS...SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS...AND THE PERMIAN BASIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF 60 TO 75 MPH GUSTS...LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING OR FLASH FLOODING AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA MONDAY. UNSEASONABLY HOT TEMPERATURES WILL AGAIN RETURN TO THE AREA STARTING NEXT WEDNESDAY AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB WELL ABOVE 100 DEGREES ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA. THIS WILL MAY RESULT IN THE ISSUANCE OF HEAT WARNINGS OR ADVISORIES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. 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
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 8, 9:50 AM CDT, 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
950 AM CDT SUN JUN 08 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0438 PM HAIL 1 E ALPINE 30.36N 103.65W
06/07/2014 E2.75 INCH BREWSTER TX PUBLIC
THERE WERE CAR DENTS, DAMAGED SHINGLES, AND BROKEN HOUSE
WINDOWS. HAIL LASTED FOR 8 MINUTES.
&&
MSCHULDTSpecial weather statement, Jun 8, 10:13 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1013 AM CDT SUN JUN 8 2014 TXZ045-046-081545- DAWSON-GAINES- 1013 AM CDT SUN JUN 8 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AFFECTING NORTHEASTERN GAINES AND NORTHWESTERN DAWSON COUNTIES UNTIL 1045 AM CDT... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF SEAGRAVES AT 1012 AM CDT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3294 10196 3269 10222 3269 10267 3294 10267 TIME...MOT...LOC 1512Z 247DEG 20KT 3288 10247
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 44 min |
| Jun 7, 7:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Ward | 32 min |
| Jun 7, 7:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Andrews | 27 min |
| Jun 7, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 59 min |
| Jun 7, 8:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 8:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 24 min | |
| Jun 7, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 56 min |
| Jun 7, 9:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Gaines | 39 min |
| Jun 7, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 1:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Borden, Dawson, Gaines | 30 min |
| Jun 8, 1:21 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Borden, Dawson, Gaines | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 1:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Borden, Dawson, Scurry | 58 min |
| Jun 8, 2:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 66 min |
| Jun 8, 3:05 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 4:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Gaines | 36 min |
| Jun 8, 11:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Dawson | 23 min |
| Jun 8, 1:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 28 min | |
| Jun 8, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos | 55 min |
| Jun 8, 2:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MAF | Borden, Dawson, Gaines, Howard, Mitchell, Scurry | 20 hr |
| Jun 8, 2:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Pecos | 29 min |
| Jun 8, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 55 min |
| Jun 8, 3:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Jeff Davis | 53 min |
| Jun 8, 4:14 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Brewster, Jeff Davis, Pecos, Presidio, Reeves | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 4:56 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Brewster, Pecos, Terrell | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 5:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Brewster | 30 min |
| Jun 8, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Presidio | 62 min |
| Jun 8, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos | 53 min |
| Jun 8, 6:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Terrell | 63 min |
| Jun 8, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 60 min |
| Jun 7, 7:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 30 min |
| Jun 7, 10:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 27 min |
| Jun 7, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 60 min |
| Jun 7, 11:09 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 62 min |
| Jun 8, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 1:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 63 min |
| Jun 8, 2:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 62 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.