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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at Jul 6, 2016, 6:45 PM CDT for Crane County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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 6, 2016, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2016, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
County Crane County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 408 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -541 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2317 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 353 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Jul 6, 2:31 PM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 2:31 PM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 6, 1:18 PM CDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 118 PM CDT WED JUL 6 2016 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-071830- 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- 118 PM CDT WED JUL 6 2016 /1218 PM MDT WED JUL 6 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WESTERN TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO MAINLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING. THE BETTER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...THE PERMIAN BASIN AND THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS. STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND STRONG WINDS WITH GUSTS 40 TO 55 MPH. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME BRIEFLY SEVERE WITH WIND GUSTS EXCEEDING 60 MPH. LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS DUE TO SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ISOLATED TO SCATTERED ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL BE GREATEST IN THE MOUNTAINS. STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS WITH GUSTS TO 55 MPH POSSIBLE. LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. .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 05
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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.