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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 30, 2014Ward County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at Jun 30, 2014, 4:45 PM CDT for Ward County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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 30, 2014, 4:45 PM CDT (21:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2014, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

County Ward County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 898 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -474 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1485 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 161 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 Jun 30, 2:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 2:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 30, 1:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
155 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2014

NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075-
079>082-258-011900-
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-
155 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2014 /1255 PM MDT MON JUN 30 2014/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW
MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING ACROSS THE DAVIS
MOUNTAINS... MARFA PLATEAU... AND BIG BEND REGION. THE MAIN HAZARDS
WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE GUSTY WIND... SMALL HAIL... AND BRIEF
HEAVY RAIN.

A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY...THE
UPPER TRANS PECOS...REEVES COUNTY AND VAN HORN AND THE HIGHWAY 54
CORRIDOR.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW
MEXICO... THE UPPER TRANS PECOS... AND THE WESTERN PERMIAN BASIN.
A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WIND THE
MAIN CONCERN... WITH SOME LARGE HAIL ALSO POSSIBLE.

A HEAT ADVISORY WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY...
THE UPPER TRANS PECOS...REEVES COUNTY AND VAN HORN AND THE HIGHWAY
54 CORRIDOR THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING.

.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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 30, 3:46 PM CDT, 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 30, 3:47 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
347 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2014

TXZ074-302115-
DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-
347 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS
AFFECTING NORTHWESTERN BREWSTER AND SOUTHEASTERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTIES
UNTIL 415 PM CDT...

A THUNDERSTORM WITH HAIL NICKEL SIZE AND GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH WAS
LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF CAMP MITRE PEAK AT 347 PM CDT...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

GUSTY WINDS... HAIL... HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE
POSSIBLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3043 10352 3033 10375 3055 10386 3064 10367
TIME...MOT...LOC 2047Z 333DEG 4KT 3051 10371

Special weather statement, Jun 30, 4:45 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 7:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Jeff Davis	35 min
Jun 30, 3:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	29 min
Jun 30, 3:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Jeff Davis	28 min
Jun 30, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	33 min
Jun 30, 5:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Presidio	27 min
Jun 30, 5:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Presidio	26 min
Jun 30, 6:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Presidio	24 min
Jun 30, 6:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Loving	29 min
Jun 30, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	37 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Texas, 2014 Every special weather statement in 2014

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.