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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at Jun 11, 2016, 5:04 PM CDT. It was in force for 41 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 11, 2016, 5:04 PM CDT (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2016, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 1369 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 926 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.8
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Jun 11, 1:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 1:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1251 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2016 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-121800- 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- 1251 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2016 /1151 AM MDT SAT JUN 11 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WESTERN TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER ALL OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. THREATS INCLUDE GUSTY DOWNBURST WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...LOCALIZED HEAVY RAIN...AND FLASH FLOODING. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON...PRODUCING WINDS OVER 58 MPH AND HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS IN THE FORECAST FOR SUNDAY OVER MUCH OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. THE THREATS FROM THESE STORMS INCLUDE GUSTY DOWNBURST WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...LOCALIZED HEAVY RAIN...AND FLASH FLOODING. .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 70
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 2:03 PM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
404 PM MDT SAT JUN 11 2016
NMZ029-112245-
NORTHERN LEA COUNTY NM-
404 PM MDT SAT JUN 11 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTH CENTRAL LEA COUNTY UNTIL
445 PM MDT...
AT 403 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7
MILES NORTH OF CAPROCK...OR 27 MILES NORTHWEST OF TATUM...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CAPROCK.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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.
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LAT...LON 3333 10365 3340 10373 3340 10372 3357 10372
3357 10346
TIME...MOT...LOC 2203Z 208DEG 14KT 3349 10369The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 3:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Pecos | 26 min |
| Jun 11, 4:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Pecos | 26 min |
| Jun 11, 5:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Pecos | 55 min |
| Jun 11, 7:32 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 2:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Borden | 27 min |
| Jun 11, 6:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Loving | 48 min |
| Jun 11, 6:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Dawson | 31 min |
| Jun 11, 6:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Brewster | 23 min |
| Jun 11, 6:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Dawson | 26 min |
| Jun 11, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 51 min |
| Jun 11, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 66 min |
| Jun 11, 6:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 30 min |
| Jun 11, 6:50 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Lea | 115 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.