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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 15, 2016Brewster County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2016, 7:09 PM CDT for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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: May 15, 2016, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2016, 7:39 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Brewster County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 227 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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

Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 217 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: 44 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 725 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

830 
WUUS54 KMAF 160009
SVRMAF
TXC043-160100-
/O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0049.160516T0009Z-160516T0100Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
709 PM CDT SUN MAY 15 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND  HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 709 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 19 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF MARATHON...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. 

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  NORTHEASTERN BREWSTER COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3009 10308 3014 10296 2990 10270 2982 10298
TIME...MOT...LOC 0009Z 325DEG 18KT 3006 10297 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

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1 follow-up statement

723 
WWUS54 KMAF 160039
SVSMAF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
739 PM CDT SUN MAY 15 2016

TXC043-160048-
/O.CAN.KMAF.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-160516T0100Z/
BREWSTER TX-
739 PM CDT SUN MAY 15 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN BREWSTER COUNTY
IS CANCELLED...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING STILL REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR
CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY UNTIL 815 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3009 10308 3014 10296 2990 10270 2982 10298
TIME...MOT...LOC 0034Z 325DEG 18KT 2994 10287 

$$

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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
May 15, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	45 min
May 15, 7:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Brewster	46 min
May 16, 3:47 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	MAF		18 hr
May 16, 4:16 AM CDT	High Wind Watch	MAF		35 hr
May 16, 1:25 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	MAF		6 hr
May 16, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2016 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2016

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.