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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 12, 2016Brewster County, Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2016, 5:51 PM CDT for Brewster County, Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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 12, 2016, 5:51 PM CDT (22:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2016, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Brewster County, TX, Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 200 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 201 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: 12 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -375 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1591 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

067 
WUUS54 KMAF 122251
SVRMAF
TXC043-371-122315-
/O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0166.160612T2251Z-160612T2315Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
551 PM CDT SUN JUN 12 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND  HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS...
  SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS...

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 548 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF LONGFELLOW...OR 25 MILES EAST OF MARATHON...MOVING
  SOUTH AT 5 MPH.

  HAZARD...PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WIND GUSTS. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...PEOPLE AND ANIMALS OUTDOORS WILL BE INJURED. EXPECT HAIL 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES. EXPECT 
           WIND DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  NORTHEASTERN BREWSTER AND SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTIES.  THIS STORM
  SHOULD CROSS U.S. HIGHWAY 90 ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF MARATHON.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR LARGE HAIL AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A WELL-BUILT STRUCTURE. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

&&

LAT...LON 3032 10294 3035 10274 3012 10265 3007 10302
TIME...MOT...LOC 2248Z 346DEG 7KT 3027 10282 

HAIL...1.50IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

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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 11, 7:11 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Dawson	3 hr
Jun 11, 7:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Martin	48 min
Jun 11, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Dawson, Gaines, Martin	39 min
Jun 11, 8:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Gaines	38 min
Jun 11, 9:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Gaines	61 min
Jun 11, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	67 min
Jun 11, 9:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Jeff Davis	25 min
Jun 11, 10:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Gaines	3 hr
Jun 11, 10:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Gaines	59 min
Jun 11, 11:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Martin	50 min
Jun 11, 11:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Andrews	47 min
Jun 11, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Martin	61 min
Jun 12, 1:16 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Ector, Glasscock, Howard, Martin and 2 more	3 hr
Jun 12, 1:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Ector, Midland	3 hr
Jun 12, 2:34 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard	3 hr
Jun 12, 2:39 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Mitchell	3 hr
Jun 12, 2:42 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Crane, Ector, Midland, Reagan, Upton	3 hr
Jun 12, 3:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Mitchell, Scurry	3 hr
Jun 12, 4:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Ector, Midland	3 hr
Jun 12, 5:31 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard	3 hr
Jun 12, 5:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	37 min

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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.