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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 28, 2019Jeff Davis County, Reeves County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 2019, 1:13 PM CDT for Jeff Davis County, Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 28, 2019, 1:13 PM CDT (18:13 UTC)
Expired
Mar 28, 2019, 2:15 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Jeff Davis County, TX, Reeves County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 193 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:14 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 193 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2019-03-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 292 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2019-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 184 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
292 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-365 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1320 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 28, 12:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 12:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 28, 1:06 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 28, 4:51 AM CDTFire Weather WatchMAF23 hr
Mar 28, 1:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFJeff Davis24 min
Mar 28, 3:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAF28 min
Mar 28, 4:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFPecos29 min
Mar 28, 4:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFReeves24 min
Mar 28, 5:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAF24 min
Mar 28, 5:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFWard28 min
Mar 28, 6:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFPecos28 min
Mar 28, 6:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFWard30 min
Mar 28, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Pecos, Reeves, Ward48 min
Mar 28, 6:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFEctor25 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2019Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2019

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.