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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 13, 2018Upton County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at Oct 13, 2018, 4:21 AM CDT for Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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: Oct 13, 2018, 4:21 AM CDT (09:21 UTC)
Expired: Oct 13, 2018, 4:45 AM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

County Upton County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 69 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: 481 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1136 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.1
Supercell composite: -1.1

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The text

As transmitted.

728 
WWUS84 KMAF 130921
SPSMAF

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
421 AM CDT SAT OCT 13 2018
 
TXZ069-130945-
Upton TX-
421 AM CDT SAT OCT 13 2018

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL UPTON COUNTY UNTIL 445 AM
CDT...

At 421 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 12
miles east of Crane, moving east at 30 mph.

Nickel size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with
this storm.

This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of central Upton
County.

LAT...LON 3125 10224 3143 10223 3155 10191 3119 10196
TIME...MOT...LOC 0921Z 272DEG 24KT 3134 10215 

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 12, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	56 min
Oct 12, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	41 min
Oct 12, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	66 min
Oct 12, 8:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Brewster	42 min
Oct 12, 8:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	44 min
Oct 12, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Pecos	65 min
Oct 12, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Pecos	70 min
Oct 12, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Pecos	70 min
Oct 12, 9:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF		37 min
Oct 12, 9:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Pecos	2 hr
Oct 12, 9:40 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Brewster, Pecos, Terrell	3 hr
Oct 12, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	54 min
Oct 12, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Pecos, Terrell	62 min
Oct 12, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	63 min
Oct 12, 10:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	45 min
Oct 12, 10:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	67 min
Oct 12, 10:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Pecos	2 hr
Oct 12, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	64 min
Oct 12, 11:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	34 min
Oct 12, 11:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Terrell	2 hr
Oct 12, 11:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	33 min
Oct 12, 11:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	94 min
Oct 13, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	57 min
Oct 13, 12:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reeves	32 min
Oct 13, 1:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	20 min
Oct 13, 1:17 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Crane, Ector, Loving, Pecos, Reeves, Ward and 1 more	118 min
Oct 13, 1:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	37 min
Oct 13, 1:27 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Howard	5 hr
Oct 13, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	60 min
Oct 13, 2:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	13 min
Oct 13, 2:26 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Andrews, Crane, Ector, Midland, Pecos, Upton and 2 more	3 hr
Oct 13, 2:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Upton	64 min
Oct 13, 2:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Ector	26 min
Oct 13, 2:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Ector	4 hr
Oct 13, 3:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	18 min
Oct 13, 3:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	24 min
Oct 13, 3:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Upton	35 min
Oct 13, 3:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Upton	34 min
Oct 13, 3:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Andrews, Martin, Midland	3 hr
Oct 13, 4:05 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Dawson, Gaines, Howard, Martin	3 hr
Oct 13, 4:08 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Reagan, Upton	3 hr
Oct 13, 4:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Upton	27 min
Oct 13, 4:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Upton	26 min
Oct 13, 4:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Reagan	3 hr
Oct 13, 4:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reagan, Upton	44 min
Oct 13, 5:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reagan	28 min
Oct 13, 5:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Borden, Howard, Mitchell, Scurry	3 hr
Oct 13, 3:49 PM CDT	Freeze Watch	MAF		24 hr
Oct 13, 3:49 PM CDT	High Wind Watch	MAF		13 hr
Oct 13, 2:31 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Lea	119 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.