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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at Apr 17, 2017, 4:24 PM CDT for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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
- Apr 17, 2017, 4:24 PM CDT (21:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2017, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
County Brewster County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 240 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 281 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -540 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1057 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Apr 17, 2:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 2:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 17, 3:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX 321 PM CDT MON APR 17 2017 TXZ074-081-172115- Big Bend Area TX-Davis/Apache Mountains Area TX- 321 PM CDT MON APR 17 2017 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WEST CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY UNTIL 415 PM CDT... At 321 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9 miles southwest of Altuda, or 12 miles southeast of Alpine, moving southwest at 10 mph. Nickel size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Elephant Mountain Wildlife Management Area. LAT...LON 2992 10372 3033 10379 3033 10354 3019 10335 TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 054DEG 7KT 3020 10356 67
Special weather statement, Apr 17, 4:24 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
424 PM CDT MON APR 17 2017
TXZ074-080-081-172230-
Big Bend Area TX-Marfa Plateau TX-Davis/Apache Mountains Area TX-
424 PM CDT MON APR 17 2017
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN BREWSTER AND EAST
CENTRAL PRESIDIO COUNTIES UNTIL 530 PM CDT...
At 424 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles west of Elephant Mountain Wildlife Management Area, or 22 miles
south of Alpine, moving southwest at 15 mph.
Nickel size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with
this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Elephant Mountain Wildlife Management Area and Elephant Mountain.
LAT...LON 3040 10356 3022 10346 2999 10342 2974 10381
3020 10382
TIME...MOT...LOC 2124Z 037DEG 12KT 3004 10364
67The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Gaines, Martin | 67 min |
| Apr 16, 7:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Andrews | 53 min |
| Apr 16, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland, Reagan, Upton | 42 min |
| Apr 16, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 64 min |
| Apr 16, 7:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Howard | 68 min |
| Apr 16, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 38 min |
| Apr 16, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 27 min |
| Apr 16, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Howard | 55 min |
| Apr 16, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 30 min |
| Apr 16, 8:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Reagan | 43 min |
| Apr 16, 9:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Glasscock | 44 min |
| Apr 16, 9:27 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Reagan | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 9:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Reagan | 43 min |
| Apr 17, 3:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Brewster | 54 min |
| Apr 17, 5:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Brewster | 52 min |
| Apr 17, 5:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Pecos | 62 min |
| Apr 17, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos | 33 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.