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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

July 16, 2014Upton County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at Jul 16, 2014, 4:11 PM CDT for Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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: Jul 16, 2014, 4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2014, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

County Upton County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 418 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 959 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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 Jul 15, 5:45 PM CDT, 22 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 5:45 PM CDT, 22 hours 26 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
Jul 16, 12:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Culberson	3 hr
Jul 16, 2:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Culberson	3 hr
Jul 16, 3:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Culberson	4 hr
Jul 16, 3:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	45 min
Jul 16, 3:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Borden	35 min
Jul 16, 3:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Howard	34 min
Jul 16, 3:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	43 min
Jul 16, 4:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reagan	27 min
Jul 16, 5:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Reagan	2 hr
Jul 16, 6:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Howard	34 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.