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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 23, 20194 counties in Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2019, 9:21 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 39 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: Apr 23, 2019, 9:21 AM CDT (14:21 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2019, 10:00 AM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Martin County, TX, Mitchell County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 75 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: 966 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 2.9

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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 Apr 23, 6:23 AM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 6:23 AM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 23, 5:10 AM CDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 23, 5:16 AM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 23, 6:02 AM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 23, 6:42 AM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 23, 9:12 AM CDT, 9 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson, Gaines	45 min
Apr 22, 9:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MAF	Dawson	3 hr
Apr 22, 9:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Loving	36 min
Apr 22, 10:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Loving	27 min
Apr 22, 11:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Loving	38 min
Apr 22, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Winkler	61 min
Apr 23, 12:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	61 min
Apr 23, 1:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Dawson, Martin	62 min
Apr 23, 2:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Gaines	3 hr
Apr 23, 2:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Gaines	31 min
Apr 23, 3:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Borden	26 min
Apr 23, 3:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Borden	27 min
Apr 23, 4:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Loving	35 min
Apr 23, 5:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Winkler	44 min
Apr 23, 6:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Winkler	43 min
Apr 23, 6:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Gaines	40 min
Apr 23, 6:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Ector	48 min
Apr 23, 7:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Martin	40 min
Apr 23, 9:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Howard	33 min
Apr 23, 10:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Mitchell	29 min
Apr 23, 4:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Martin	52 min
Apr 23, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Midland	60 min
Apr 23, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Mitchell	60 min
Apr 23, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Upton	19 min
Apr 23, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson, Howard, Martin	49 min
Apr 23, 5:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Midland	45 min
Apr 23, 5:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF		38 min
Apr 23, 5:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Midland	2 hr
Apr 23, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Midland, Upton	64 min
Apr 23, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	60 min
Apr 23, 6:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF		33 min
Apr 23, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland, Upton	62 min
Apr 23, 6:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Culberson	26 min
Apr 23, 6:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	31 min
Apr 23, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	36 min
Apr 23, 6:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Midland	2 hr
Apr 23, 6:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Howard, Martin	3 hr
Apr 23, 6:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Brewster	26 min
Apr 23, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Pecos	31 min
Apr 23, 6:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	31 min
Apr 22, 10:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Eddy	37 min
Apr 22, 10:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Eddy	3 hr
Apr 22, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	36 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.