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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 2016, 12:18 AM CDT for Loving County, Reeves County, Ward County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 9, 2016, 12:18 AM CDT (05:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 2016, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Loving County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Ward County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:20 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 1:07 AM CDT | HAIL 1 | 12 Nnw Pecos, TX |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2456 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
325
WUUS54 KMAF 090518
SVRMAF
TXC301-389-475-090615-
/O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0003.160409T0518Z-160409T0615Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1218 AM CDT SAT APR 9 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN WARD COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS...
WEST CENTRAL REEVES COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS...
SOUTH CENTRAL LOVING COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS...
* UNTIL 115 AM CDT
* AT 1218 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES
NORTHWEST OF TOYAH...OR 24 MILES WEST OF PECOS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
30 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...
PECOS...MENTONE...TOYAH...PECOS MUNICIPAL AIRPORT AND BARSTOW.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 20 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 18 AND 48.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3125 10395 3142 10404 3172 10362 3169 10346
3140 10337
TIME...MOT...LOC 0518Z 234DEG 27KT 3138 10392
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
671 follow-up statement
360
WWUS54 KMAF 090551
SVSMAF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1251 AM CDT SAT APR 9 2016
TXC301-389-475-090615-
/O.CON.KMAF.SV.W.0003.000000T0000Z-160409T0615Z/
WARD TX-REEVES TX-LOVING TX-
1251 AM CDT SAT APR 9 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 115 AM CDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN WARD...WEST CENTRAL REEVES AND SOUTH CENTRAL LOVING
COUNTIES...
AT 1251 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES NORTHWEST
OF PECOS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO
ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PECOS...MENTONE...TOYAH...PECOS MUNICIPAL AIRPORT AND BARSTOW.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 20 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 18 AND 48.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3125 10395 3142 10404 3172 10362 3169 10346
3140 10337
TIME...MOT...LOC 0551Z 237DEG 27KT 3151 10367
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
67The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 8:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Brewster | 48 min |
| Apr 8, 9:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Pecos | 38 min |
| Apr 8, 9:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Crane | 45 min |
| Apr 8, 11:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Culberson | 45 min |
| Apr 8, 11:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 64 min | |
| Apr 8, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson, Loving, Reeves | 64 min |
| Apr 9, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving, Reeves, Ward, Winkler | 65 min |
| Apr 9, 1:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Culberson | 38 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.