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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 2021, 6:08 PM CST for Glasscock County, Texas. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 13, 2021, 6:08 PM CST (00:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2021, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.75 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
County Glasscock County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 3:23 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3140 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 93 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 380 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
584
WUUS54 KMAF 140008
SVRMAF
TXC173-140045-
/O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0012.210314T0008Z-210314T0045Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
608 PM CST Sat Mar 13 2021
The National Weather Service in Midland has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Eastern Glasscock County in western Texas...
* Until 645 PM CST.
* At 608 PM CST, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles south of
Garden City, moving northeast at 45 mph.
HAZARD...Golf ball size hail and 70 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Trained weather spotters.
IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail
damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect
considerable tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to
mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
* Locations impacted include...
Garden City and Saint Lawrence.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM CST for western
Texas.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Large hail and damaging winds and continuous cloud to ground
lightning is occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately.
Lightning is one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can
hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
&&
LAT...LON 3166 10145 3174 10163 3204 10144 3207 10127
3176 10127
TIME...MOT...LOC 0008Z 227DEG 37KT 3176 10145
HAIL...1.75IN
WIND...70MPH
$$
291 follow-up statement
765
WWUS54 KMAF 140024
SVSMAF
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
624 PM CST Sat Mar 13 2021
TXC173-140045-
/O.CON.KMAF.SV.W.0012.000000T0000Z-210314T0045Z/
Glasscock TX-
624 PM CST Sat Mar 13 2021
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM CST
FOR NORTHEASTERN GLASSCOCK COUNTY...
At 623 PM CST, a severe thunderstorm was located 10 miles east of
Garden City, moving northeast at 45 mph.
HAZARD...Golf ball size hail and 70 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Trained weather spotters.
IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail
damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect
considerable tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to
mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
northeastern Glasscock County.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM CST for western
Texas.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading
killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to
be struck by lightning.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
&&
LAT...LON 3176 10139 3184 10144 3202 10144 3207 10127
3176 10127
TIME...MOT...LOC 0023Z 227DEG 37KT 3187 10131
HAIL...1.75IN
WIND...70MPH
$$
29The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 6:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard, Mitchell, Scurry | 48 min |
| Mar 13, 6:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Reagan, Upton | 45 min |
| Mar 13, 6:21 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Pecos, Upton | 39 min |
| Mar 13, 6:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos, Upton | 39 min |
| Mar 13, 6:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 50 min |
| Mar 13, 7:02 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Reagan | 43 min |
| Mar 13, 7:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 65 min |
| Mar 14, 1:56 AM CST | Wind Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Crane, Dawson, Ector and 13 more | 19 hr |
| Mar 14, 4:11 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MAF | Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Loving, Pecos, Presidio and 3 more | 17 hr |
| Mar 14, 1:47 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 24 hr |
| Mar 14, 2:21 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MAF | Culberson | 13 hr |
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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.