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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 125, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 28, 2020Brewster County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2020, 2:16 PM CDT for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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 28, 2020, 2:16 PM CDT (19:16 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2020, 2:54 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Brewster County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 238 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: 1784 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -245 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 743 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 225 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.6

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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 28, 12:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 12:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 1:33 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
133 PM CDT Thu May 28 2020

NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-059>063-067>070-075-082-
270>282-291845-
Guadalupe Mountains of Eddy County-Eddy County Plains-
Northern Lea County-Central Lea County-Southern Lea County-Gaines-
Dawson-Borden-Scurry-Andrews-Martin-Howard-Mitchell-Loving-Winkler-
Ector-Midland-Glasscock-Ward-Crane-Upton-Reagan-Pecos-Terrell-
Guadalupe Mountains Above 7000 Feet-Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains-
Van Horn and Highway 54 Corridor-Eastern Culberson County-
Reeves County Plains-Chinati Mountains-Marfa Plateau-Davis Mountains-
Davis Mountains Foothills-Central Brewster County-Chisos Basin-
Presidio Valley-Lower Brewster County-
133 PM CDT Thu May 28 2020 /1233 PM MDT Thu May 28 2020/

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of southeast New
Mexico, southwest Texas, and western Texas.

.DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight

Severe storms are possible in the Big Bend this afternoon. Large
hail and damaging winds are the main threats with these storms.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday

The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not anticipated.

Please relay any information about observed severe weather to the
NWS while following all local, state and CDC guidelines.

This product, along with other watches, warnings, advisories,
and statements issued by the National Weather Service Office in
Midland, can be found on the internet at...
https://weather.gov/midland

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 28, 1:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 2:02 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 2:09 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 1:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Brewster	34 min
May 28, 2:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Brewster	28 min
May 28, 2:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Brewster	36 min
May 28, 2:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF		29 min
May 28, 2:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reagan	25 min
May 28, 2:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Presidio	26 min
May 28, 3:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF		48 min
May 28, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Pecos	67 min
May 28, 3:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Presidio	41 min
May 28, 3:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Presidio	50 min
May 28, 4:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Brewster	19 min
May 28, 4:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Brewster, Presidio	116 min
May 28, 4:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Presidio	2 hr
May 28, 4:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Presidio	52 min
May 28, 4:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Presidio	51 min
May 28, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Presidio	48 min
May 28, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Presidio	61 min
May 28, 5:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Terrell	33 min
May 28, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis, Presidio	24 min
May 28, 6:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF		38 min
May 28, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis, Presidio	52 min
May 28, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Jeff Davis	34 min
May 28, 6:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Terrell	15 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.