Alert archive / Texas / Dust Storm Warnings in 2021
Dust Storm Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this dust storm warning at Mar 22, 2021, 4:58 PM CDT for 9 counties in Texas. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 2021, 4:58 PM CDT (21:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2021, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Howard County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 5:02 PM CDT | NON-TSTM WND GST 65 | Welch, TX |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 58 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2018 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
134
WWUS54 KMAF 222159
DSWMAF
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Dust Storm Warning
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
458 PM CDT Mon Mar 22 2021
TXC003-033-115-135-165-227-317-329-495-222300-
/O.NEW.KMAF.DS.W.0002.210322T2158Z-210322T2300Z/
Ector TX-Andrews TX-Midland TX-Gaines TX-Borden TX-Winkler TX-
Howard TX-Martin TX-Dawson TX-
458 PM CDT Mon Mar 22 2021
The National Weather Service in Midland has issued a
* Dust Storm Warning for...
Ector County in western Texas...
Andrews County in western Texas...
Northern Midland County in western Texas...
Gaines County in western Texas...
Borden County in western Texas...
Northeastern Winkler County in western Texas...
Northwestern Howard County in western Texas...
Martin County in western Texas...
Dawson County in western Texas...
* Until 600 PM CDT.
* At 458 PM CDT, a dust channel was 15 miles east of Andrews, moving
southeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Less than a quarter mile visibility with damaging wind in
excess of 60 mph.
SOURCE...Doppler radar.
IMPACT...Dangerous life-threatening travel.
* This includes Interstate 20 between mile markers 108 and 162.
Locations impacted include...
Midland, Odessa, Andrews, Lamesa, Seminole, Seagraves, Ackerly,
Greenwood, Gail, Stanton, Goldsmith, Seagraves Airport, Lenorah,
Midland International Air and Space Port, Gaines County Airport,
Welch, West Odessa, Lamesa Municipal Airport, Los Ybanez and Cotton
Flat.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Dust storms lead to dangerous driving conditions with visibility
reduced to near zero. If driving, avoid dust storms if possible. If
caught in one, pull off the road, turn off your lights and keep your
foot off the brake.
Motorists should not drive into a dust storm. PULL ASIDE STAY ALIVE!
&&
LAT...LON 3178 10199 3177 10308 3296 10301 3296 10135
3293 10117 3286 10117
TIME...MOT...LOC 2158Z 337DEG 26KT 3236 10229
$$
72The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 6:24 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | MAF | Borden, Howard, Mitchell, Scurry | 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.