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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 23, 2015, 3:05 PM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 25 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 23, 2015, 3:05 PM CDT (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2015, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
County Ector County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 28 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
- 584 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1854 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 Aug 23, 2:40 PM CDT, 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 2:40 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX 240 PM CDT SUN AUG 23 2015 .DISCUSSION... Current observations show the cold front is right about where it was expected to be at this time, right along the I-20 corridor to Pecos, then extending northwest along the Pecos River valley into southeast New Mexico. A broken line of convection is now developng along the front from Colorado City to Odessa. The fine resolution models are showing this convection, along with storms developing in the Davis and Guadalupe Mountains, increasing in coverage and providing decent rainfall amounts across the area through midnight tonight before diminishing. The more course resolution models (40km and greater) do not show as much coverage or precipitation amounts which provided some uncertainty in this forecast package. Obs show a local maximum of dewpoints along the front better depicted by the more unstable hi-res models so hopefully we will continue to see an expansion in precip coverage. The main factor potentially limiting convection will be the increase in cloud cover decreasing insolation and counteracting the destabilizing effects of the surface moisture. Storms will diminish later tonight but more will develop tomorrow afternoon along the remnants of the lifting front. Convection will be much more isolated due to less wind and moisture convergence. The remainder of the forecast appears to be a return of what we are very familiar with, an upper level high building over New Mexico and west Texas. Temperatures will steadily climb through the week to well above normal levels and rain chances will greatly diminish. Hennig && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BIG SPRING TX 70 91 72 96 / 30 20 10 20 CARLSBAD NM 67 91 68 93 / 30 20 10 10 DRYDEN TX 74 97 73 96 / 10 20 0 10 FORT STOCKTON TX 70 94 70 94 / 20 20 10 10 GUADALUPE PASS TX 64 85 67 84 / 30 20 10 10 HOBBS NM 65 87 67 92 / 30 20 10 10 MARFA TX 62 87 61 86 / 30 10 10 0 MIDLAND INTL AIRPORT TX 69 92 70 95 / 30 20 10 10 ODESSA TX 69 91 71 95 / 30 20 10 10 WINK TX 70 95 71 96 / 30 20 10 10 && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NM...NONE. TX...NONE. && 70/10
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 23, 2:22 AM CDT, 12 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 222 AM CDT SUN AUG 23 2015 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-240730- 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- 222 AM CDT SUN AUG 23 2015 /122 AM MDT SUN AUG 23 2015/ 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 POSSIBLE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON ...COVERING MUCH OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...AND SMALL HAIL WILL OCCUR WITH THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS. LASTLY...FREQUENT CLOUD- TO- GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES WILL OCCUR IN AND NEAR ANY THUNDERSTORM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR 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, Aug 23, 3:05 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 305 PM CDT SUN AUG 23 2015 TXZ061-232030- ECTOR- 305 PM CDT SUN AUG 23 2015 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT ECTOR COUNTY... AT 305 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR ODESSA SCHELEMEYER FIELD...OR NEAR ODESSA...MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH. WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ODESSA...WEST ODESSA...GOLDSMITH...ODESSA SCHELEMEYER FIELD... PENWELL...NOTREES AND NORTH COWDEN. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 20 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 102 AND 121. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE. LAT...LON 3204 10229 3175 10229 3173 10279 3204 10279 TIME...MOT...LOC 2005Z 084DEG 8KT 3188 10242 67
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 3:03 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 3:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Scurry | 53 min |
| Aug 23, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Winkler | 26 min |
| Aug 23, 3:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Andrews | 44 min |
| Aug 23, 3:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Loving | 42 min |
| Aug 23, 3:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Brewster | 38 min |
| Aug 23, 3:53 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Pecos, Reeves | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 3:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Andrews | 48 min |
| Aug 23, 4:03 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Martin, Midland | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 4:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Andrews | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 5:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Reeves | 62 min |
| Aug 23, 5:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Dawson | 42 min |
| Aug 23, 5:32 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Loving, Reeves, Ward, Winkler | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 6:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Martin, Midland | 3 hr |
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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.