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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 6, 2021Gaines County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at Jun 6, 2021, 10:27 PM CDT for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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: Jun 6, 2021, 10:27 PM CDT (03:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2021, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

County Gaines County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:27 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 86 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: 1191 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2971 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.2

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 6, 9:35 PM CDT, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 9:35 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 6, 9:38 PM CDT, 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 9:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 10:27 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
1027 PM CDT Sun Jun 6 2021

TXZ045-046-070430-
Dawson TX-Gaines TX-
1027 PM CDT Sun Jun 6 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR GAINES AND WESTERN DAWSON
COUNTIES UNTIL 1130 PM CDT...

At 1027 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Seagraves Airport, or over Seagraves, moving southeast at 30 mph.

Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph will be possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Seminole, Seagraves, Seagraves Airport, Gaines County Airport, Welch,
Loop, Punkin Center, McKenzie Lake and Gaines County Park.

LAT...LON 3252 10214 3258 10279 3296 10278 3296 10192
TIME...MOT...LOC 0327Z 298DEG 26KT 3293 10253

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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
Jun 6, 9:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Yoakum	52 min
Jun 6, 10:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Ector, Winkler	66 min
Jun 6, 11:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson, Gaines	52 min
Jun 6, 11:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Dawson	46 min
Jun 6, 11:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Ector, Midland	48 min
Jun 7, 12:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Borden, Dawson	60 min
Jun 7, 12:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson, Scurry	55 min
Jun 7, 1:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Scurry	44 min
Jun 7, 3:15 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	MAF	Brewster, Jeff Davis, Presidio, Terrell, Winkler	18 hr
Jun 7, 2:00 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	MAF	Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Pecos, Presidio, Reeves	31 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.