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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at Jul 3, 2021, 8:34 PM CDT for Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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
- Jul 3, 2021, 8:34 PM CDT (01:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2021, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
County Reeves County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:35 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 849 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1217 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
396 WWUS84 KMAF 040134 SPSMAF Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX 834 PM CDT Sat Jul 3 2021 TXZ274-278-040215- Reeves County Plains TX-Davis Mountains Foothills TX- 834 PM CDT Sat Jul 3 2021 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN REEVES AND NORTH CENTRAL JEFF DAVIS COUNTIES UNTIL 915 PM CDT... At 834 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8 miles north of Balmorhea, or 14 miles south of Toyah, moving south at 20 mph. Penny size hail and wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Toyah, Balmorhea, Balmorhea Lake, Balmorhea State Park, Saragosa and Toyahvale. This includes the following highways... Interstate 10 between mile markers 194 and 215. Interstate 20 between mile markers 14 and 28. LAT...LON 3135 10386 3136 10360 3089 10360 3093 10399 TIME...MOT...LOC 0134Z 007DEG 32KT 3110 10379 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 7:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Culberson, Reeves | 4 hr |
| Jul 3, 9:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Loving, Reeves, Ward | 4 hr |
| Jul 4, 1:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Jeff Davis | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 1:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 2 hr |
| Jul 4, 1:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MAF | Borden, Dawson, Howard, Martin, Mitchell, Scurry | 28 hr |
| Jul 4, 2:09 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Brewster, Jeff Davis | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 3:16 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Brewster, Jeff Davis, Presidio | 4 hr |
| Jul 4, 4:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Jeff Davis | 52 min |
| Jul 4, 5:02 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Jeff Davis | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 6:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Culberson, Jeff Davis | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 6:55 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Culberson | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.