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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at May 7, 2021, 7:36 PM 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 2021, 7:36 PM CDT (00:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2021, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Counties Loving County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 3234 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted.
393
WWUS84 KMAF 080036
SPSMAF
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
736 PM CDT Fri May 7 2021
NMZ028-034-TXZ050-059-060-067-075-274-278-080115-
Southern Lea County NM-Eddy County Plains NM-Loving TX-Pecos TX-
Andrews TX-Ward TX-Reeves County Plains TX-
Davis Mountains Foothills TX-Winkler TX-
736 PM CDT Fri May 7 2021
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN EDDY...SOUTHEASTERN
LEA...NORTHWESTERN PECOS...SOUTHWESTERN ANDREWS...REEVES...NORTHERN
JEFF DAVIS...WARD...WINKLER AND LOVING COUNTIES UNTIL 815 PM CDT/715
PM MDT/...
At 734 PM CDT/634 PM MDT/, Doppler radar was tracking strong
thunderstorms along a line extending from 12 miles northeast of Orla
to near Balmorhea Lake. Movement was east at 35 mph.
Half inch hail and wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph will be possible with
these storms.
Locations impacted include...
Pecos, Monahans, Kermit, Jal, Wink, Toyah, Mentone, Thorntonville,
Barstow, Pyote, Jal Airport, Saragosa, Wickett, Toyah Lake, Coyanosa,
Pecos Municipal Airport, Slash Ranch, Roy Hurd Memorial Airport,
Verhalen and Bennett.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 10 between mile markers 188 and 192.
Interstate 20 between mile markers 2 and 80.
LAT...LON 3217 10287 3093 10290 3106 10406 3158 10388
3215 10382
TIME...MOT...LOC 0034Z 293DEG 57KT 3190 10371 3094 10370
$$
89The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 7:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Reeves | 25 min |
| May 7, 8:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Ward | 45 min |
| May 7, 8:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Brewster | 46 min |
| May 7, 8:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Ector, Winkler | 51 min |
| May 7, 9:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Crane | 44 min |
| May 7, 9:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Andrews, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Martin | 37 min |
| May 8, 3:28 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | MAF | Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Presidio, Reeves | 17 hr |
| May 8, 4:09 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MAF | Culberson | 17 hr |
| May 7, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 59 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.