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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 10, 2014Mitchell County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at Oct 10, 2014, 4:43 PM CDT for Mitchell 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: Oct 10, 2014, 4:43 PM CDT (21:43 UTC)
Expired: Oct 10, 2014, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

County Mitchell County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 1087 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -166 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1197 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 Oct 10, 2:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 10, 2:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 10, 12:43 PM CDT, 4 hours before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1243 PM CDT FRI OCT 10 2014

NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075-
079>082-258-111745-
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-
1243 PM CDT FRI OCT 10 2014 /1143 AM MDT FRI OCT 10 2014/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE EASTERN
PERMIAN BASIN AND WESTERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND LARGE
HAIL.

FURTHER WEST IN THE WESTERN PERMIAN BASIN...TRANS PECOS...AND
SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WITH SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS THE MAIN THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.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, Oct 10, 4:43 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
443 PM CDT FRI OCT 10 2014

TXZ053-102215-
MITCHELL-
443 PM CDT FRI OCT 10 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AFFECTING
CENTRAL MITCHELL COUNTY UNTIL 515 PM CDT...

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER LAKE COLORADO CITY AT 442 PM
CDT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS GUSTING
TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. TAKE SHELTER FROM THIS
STORM.

LAT...LON 3250 10085 3250 10068 3228 10068 3225 10102
      3235 10104
TIME...MOT...LOC 2142Z 246DEG 21KT 3232 10091

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 10, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Martin	34 min
Oct 10, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Midland	63 min
Oct 10, 5:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Mitchell	37 min
Oct 10, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	30 min
Oct 10, 6:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Mitchell	62 min
Oct 10, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	35 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.