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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 17, 2016, 8:05 PM CDT for Culberson County, Texas; Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 55 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
- Sep 17, 2016, 8:05 PM CDT (01:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 2016, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Eddy County, NM, Culberson County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 186 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 2085 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1172 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 310 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
The text
As transmitted.
936
WUUS54 KMAF 180105
SVRMAF
NMC015-TXC109-180200-
/O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0252.160918T0105Z-160918T0200Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
805 PM CDT SAT SEP 17 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO...
NORTHEASTERN CULBERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS...
* UNTIL 900 PM CDT/800 PM MDT/
* AT 805 PM CDT/705 PM MDT/...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
WHITES CITY...OR 22 MILES SOUTH OF CARLSBAD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20
MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WHITES CITY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AND CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY.
LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURE'S LEADING KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN
HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3221 10435 3205 10392 3200 10397 3200 10402
3195 10403 3185 10413 3207 10447
TIME...MOT...LOC 0105Z 297DEG 19KT 3208 10433
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
671 follow-up statement
175
WWUS54 KMAF 180128
SVSMAF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
828 PM CDT SAT SEP 17 2016
NMC015-TXC109-180200-
/O.CON.KMAF.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-160918T0200Z/
EDDY NM-CULBERSON TX-
828 PM CDT SAT SEP 17 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM
CDT/800 PM MDT/ FOR SOUTH CENTRAL EDDY AND NORTHEASTERN CULBERSON
COUNTIES...
AT 828 PM CDT/728 PM MDT/...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF WHITES CITY...OR 23 MILES NORTHWEST OF ORLA...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO
ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTH
CENTRAL EDDY AND NORTHEASTERN CULBERSON COUNTIES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY. LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURE'S LEADING
KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO
BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3205 10392 3200 10397 3200 10402 3195 10403
3185 10413 3203 10437 3218 10426
TIME...MOT...LOC 0128Z 310DEG 14KT 3202 10423
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
67The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 7:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 55 min | |
| Sep 17, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 54 min |
| Sep 17, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson, Jeff Davis | 53 min |
| Sep 17, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Winkler | 33 min |
| Sep 17, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson | 45 min |
| Sep 17, 7:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Martin | 54 min |
| Sep 17, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 50 min |
| Sep 17, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Howard, Mitchell, Scurry | 60 min |
| Sep 17, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson, Howard, Martin | 54 min |
| Sep 17, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 37 min |
| Sep 17, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Winkler | 60 min |
| Sep 17, 8:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Jeff Davis | 44 min |
| Sep 17, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 27 min |
| Sep 17, 8:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
| Sep 17, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland, Upton | 47 min |
| Sep 17, 8:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Martin | 54 min |
| Sep 17, 9:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Glasscock | 57 min |
| Sep 17, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson, Loving, Reeves | 57 min |
| Sep 17, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Winkler | 63 min |
| Sep 17, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Presidio | 62 min |
| Sep 17, 9:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Midland | 3 hr |
| Sep 17, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland, Reagan, Upton | 48 min |
| Sep 17, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving | 63 min |
| Sep 17, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 42 min |
| Sep 17, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Ector, Midland, Upton | 61 min |
| Sep 17, 10:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Glasscock, Reagan | 41 min |
| Sep 17, 10:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Presidio | 48 min |
| Sep 17, 10:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Ward | 45 min |
| Sep 17, 10:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Crane, Ector, Ward, Winkler | 3 hr |
| Sep 17, 11:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Reagan | 51 min |
| Sep 17, 11:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Crane | 47 min |
| Sep 17, 11:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Crane | 49 min |
| Sep 18, 12:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Crane, Upton | 49 min |
| Sep 18, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 45 min |
| Sep 18, 3:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 48 min | |
| Sep 18, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Jeff Davis | 64 min |
| Sep 18, 4:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Brewster, Jeff Davis, Pecos | 3 hr |
| Sep 18, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 62 min |
| Sep 18, 4:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 54 min | |
| Sep 17, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 58 min |
| Sep 17, 7:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Eddy | 24 min |
| Sep 17, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 26 min |
| Sep 17, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 31 min |
| Sep 17, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 33 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.