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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 8, 2019Borden County, Scurry County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2019, 2:53 AM CDT for Borden County, Scurry County, Texas. It was in force for 67 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: May 8, 2019, 2:53 AM CDT (07:53 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2019, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Borden County, TX, Scurry County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 1360 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -144 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1200 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 3.3

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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 May 7, 11:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 11:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 8, 2:17 AM CDT, 36 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 7, 10:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 8, 2:26 AM CDT, 27 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
226 AM CDT Wed May 8 2019

TXZ047-048-052-053-080800-
Mitchell TX-Scurry TX-Howard TX-Borden TX-
226 AM CDT Wed May 8 2019

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN MITCHELL...
SOUTHWESTERN SCURRY...SOUTHEASTERN BORDEN AND NORTHEASTERN HOWARD
COUNTIES UNTIL 300 AM CDT...

At 225 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9
miles northeast of Luther, or 14 miles south of Gail, moving
northeast at 20 mph.

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

Locations impacted include...
J B Thomas Reservoir, Vincent, Cuthbert and Knapp.

LAT...LON 3246 10147 3260 10151 3287 10114 3248 10103
TIME...MOT...LOC 0725Z 240DEG 49KT 3257 10138

Special weather statement, May 8, 2:47 AM CDT, 6 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
247 AM CDT Wed May 8 2019

TXZ048-080815-
Scurry TX-
247 AM CDT Wed May 8 2019

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN SCURRY COUNTY UNTIL 315
AM CDT...

At 246 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles east of Fluvanna, or 12 miles north of Snyder, moving northeast
at 30 mph.

Half inch hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with this
storm.

Locations impacted include...
Snyder and Randalls Corner.

LAT...LON 3267 10108 3297 10117 3297 10072 3294 10065
      3289 10066
TIME...MOT...LOC 0746Z 240DEG 49KT 3288 10099

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 7:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	49 min
May 7, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	59 min
May 7, 7:52 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Pecos	3 hr
May 7, 7:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Upton	19 min
May 7, 8:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Upton	50 min
May 7, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan, Upton	64 min
May 7, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	33 min
May 8, 2:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Borden	34 min
May 8, 2:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Scurry	28 min
May 8, 3:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reagan	41 min
May 8, 3:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	35 min
May 8, 4:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Scurry	59 min
May 8, 4:02 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Scurry	3 hr
May 8, 4:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Scurry	3 hr
May 8, 4:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	38 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.