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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 28, 2021Ward County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at May 28, 2021, 9:13 PM CDT for Ward County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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 28, 2021, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2021, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

County Ward County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 105 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: 2460 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1075 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 267 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.7
Supercell composite: 18.5

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The text

As transmitted.

709 
WWUS84 KMAF 290213
SPSMAF

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
913 PM CDT Fri May 28 2021
 
TXZ067-068-075-274-290245-
Pecos TX-Crane TX-Ward TX-Reeves County Plains TX-
913 PM CDT Fri May 28 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTH CENTRAL PECOS...EAST
CENTRAL REEVES...EASTERN WARD AND WEST CENTRAL CRANE COUNTIES UNTIL
945 PM CDT...

At 913 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Pyote, or 18 miles southwest of Monahans, moving southeast at 30 mph.

Nickel size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with
this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Grandfalls, Pyote, Royalty, Coyanosa and Imperial Reservoir. 

This includes Interstate 20 between mile markers 54 and 73.
 
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM CDT for
western and southwestern Texas. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch also
remains in effect until 1100 PM CDT for western Texas.

LAT...LON 3145 10335 3162 10319 3143 10262 3109 10301
TIME...MOT...LOC 0213Z 301DEG 25KT 3145 10316 

$$

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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, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Midland, Upton	58 min
May 28, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Loving, Reeves, Ward, Winkler	63 min
May 28, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Upton	51 min
May 28, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Ector, Glasscock, Midland, Upton	62 min
May 28, 8:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Loving	29 min
May 28, 8:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reagan	26 min
May 28, 8:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Ward	46 min
May 28, 8:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Glasscock, Midland	47 min
May 28, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	60 min
May 28, 9:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Gaines	3 hr
May 28, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Dawson, Gaines, Martin	55 min
May 28, 10:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Culberson, Loving, Reeves, Ward, Winkler	65 min
May 28, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Glasscock and 4 more	60 min
May 28, 11:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Culberson, Loving, Reeves, Winkler	2 hr
May 28, 11:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Crane, Glasscock, Midland, Reagan, Upton	58 min
May 28, 11:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson, Loving, Reeves, Ward	66 min
May 28, 11:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Borden, Howard, Mitchell, Scurry	40 min
May 29, 12:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Mitchell	38 min
May 29, 12:24 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Midland, Mitchell	2 hr
May 29, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Mitchell	46 min
May 29, 12:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reagan, Upton	42 min
May 29, 12:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Mitchell	49 min
May 29, 12:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reeves	47 min
May 29, 1:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reagan	25 min
May 29, 1:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	39 min
May 29, 1:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis, Reeves	52 min
May 29, 2:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Jeff Davis, Pecos, Reeves	51 min
May 29, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis, Presidio	22 min
May 29, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis, Presidio	32 min
May 29, 4:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Jeff Davis	41 min
May 29, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Jeff Davis	33 min
May 29, 5:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Culberson	28 min
May 29, 5:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Jeff Davis	3 hr
May 28, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	66 min
May 28, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy, Lea	67 min
May 28, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy, Lea	67 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.