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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 14, 2015Midland County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 14, 2015, 4:49 PM CDT for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 26 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: Aug 14, 2015, 4:49 PM CDT (21:49 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2015, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

County Midland County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 326 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: 136 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -200 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1870 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 15 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 Aug 14, 2:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 2:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 14, 2:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
238 PM CDT FRI AUG 14 2015

NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075-
079>082-258-151945-
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-
238 PM CDT FRI AUG 14 2015 /138 PM MDT FRI AUG 14 2015/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST THROUGH TONIGHT
FOR MUCH OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. THE BEST
CHANCES FOR RAIN TONIGHT LOOK TO BE CONFINED TO THE WESTERN
PERMIAN BASIN. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...LOCALIZED AREAS OF BLOWING
DUST REDUCING VISIBILITY TO BELOW A MILD...AND FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-
GROUND LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.

THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BEGIN TO WANE DURING THE EARLY MORNING
HOURS SATURDAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL SHIFT WEST THIS WEEKEND AND THROUGH THE
EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK. MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS
WILL AFFECT THE MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT PLAINS. WIND GUSTS TO 50
MPH...LOCALIZED AREAS OF BLOWING DUST REDUCING VISIBILITY TO BELOW
A MILE...AND FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY
THESE STORMS.

.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, Aug 14, 4:45 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 14, 4:49 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
Aug 14, 4:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Ector	30 min
Aug 14, 5:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Scurry	64 min
Aug 14, 6:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Scurry	47 min
Aug 14, 6:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Scurry	28 min
Aug 14, 6:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	32 min
Aug 14, 6:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Scurry	45 min
Aug 14, 6:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Mitchell	52 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Texas, 2015 Every special weather statement in 2015

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.