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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

July 5, 2016Borden County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2016, 2:42 PM CDT for Borden County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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: Jul 5, 2016, 2:42 PM CDT (19:42 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2016, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

County Borden County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:42 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 785 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -358 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2422 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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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 Jul 5, 2:38 PM CDT, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 2:38 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 5, 2:24 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
224 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 2016

NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075-
079>082-258-061930-
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-
224 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 2016 /124 PM MDT TUE JUL 5 2016/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW
MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WESTERN TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

HOT TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON. A HEAT ADVISORY IS
IN EFFECT FOR THE REGION.

WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT.
LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

HOT TEMPERATURES WILL AGAIN BE PRESENT WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.
A HEAT ADVISORY COULD BE ISSUED FOR ANY ONE OF THESE DAYS.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.
LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL AGAIN BE THE MAIN THREATS.

.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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 5, 2:42 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
242 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 2016

TXZ047-052030-
BORDEN TX-
242 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL BORDEN COUNTY UNTIL 330
PM CDT...

AT 242 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
GAIL...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GAIL.

LAT...LON 3257 10168 3284 10168 3287 10126 3254 10127
TIME...MOT...LOC 1942Z 278DEG 9KT 3274 10155

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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
Jul 4, 7:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Ector	27 min
Jul 5, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden	37 min
Jul 5, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Howard	31 min
Jul 5, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Howard	46 min
Jul 5, 5:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Howard	45 min
Jul 5, 5:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Howard	47 min
Jul 5, 6:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Ector	48 min
Jul 5, 6:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Glasscock	41 min
Jul 5, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	24 min
Jul 5, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Martin, Midland	51 min

Nearby

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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.