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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 187, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 24, 2019Crane County, Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2019, 1:43 PM CDT for Crane County, Pecos 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
May 24, 2019, 1:43 PM CDT (18:43 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2019, 2:45 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 Crane County, TX, Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:43 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 102 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 2019-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2285 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 2019-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 165 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2285 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
805 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
165 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.1
Supercell composite
6.8

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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 24, 12:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 12:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 24, 1:03 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
103 PM CDT Fri May 24 2019

TXZ068-075-241845-
Pecos TX-Crane TX-
103 PM CDT Fri May 24 2019

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTH CENTRAL PECOS AND SOUTHERN
CRANE COUNTIES UNTIL 145 PM CDT...

At 103 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 13
miles east of Fort Stockton, moving north at 30 mph.

Penny size hail and wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph will be possible with
this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Girvin and Imperial.

This includes Interstate 10 between mile markers 266 and 284.

LAT...LON 3068 10258 3076 10282 3133 10271 3122 10231
      3121 10231
TIME...MOT...LOC 1803Z 195DEG 33KT 3088 10266

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 9:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFYoakum31 min
May 23, 10:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFCochran15 min
May 24, 4:09 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFYoakum51 min
May 24, 1:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFPecos42 min
May 24, 2:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Pecos64 min
May 24, 2:53 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFPecos37 min
May 24, 3:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFTerrell40 min
May 24, 3:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos64 min
May 24, 3:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster, Pecos, Terrell63 min
May 24, 4:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFTerrell36 min
May 24, 4:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFTerrell44 min
May 24, 4:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos67 min
May 24, 4:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos36 min
May 24, 4:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFPecos42 min
May 24, 4:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos3 hr
May 24, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos39 min
May 24, 5:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFTerrell42 min
May 24, 5:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFUpton41 min
May 24, 5:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFUpton27 min
May 24, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos64 min
May 24, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos45 min
May 24, 6:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFUpton13 min
May 24, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos61 min
May 23, 10:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFLea57 min
May 23, 11:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea43 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.