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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 16, 2022Andrews County, Gaines County, Texas; Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 16, 2022, 1:10 PM CDT for Andrews County, Gaines County, Texas; Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 16, 2022, 1:10 PM CDT (18:10 UTC)
Expired
Oct 16, 2022, 1:45 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Gaines County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 98 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2022-10-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 74 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2022-10-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 187 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
74 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-168 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1290 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
187 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 16, 6:43 AM CDT, 6 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 16, 6:43 AM CDT, 6 hours 27 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 16, 12:46 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 15, 7:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFLoving48 min
Oct 15, 7:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFLoving44 min
Oct 15, 7:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFLoving52 min
Oct 15, 8:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFWinkler44 min
Oct 15, 8:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFLoving42 min
Oct 15, 9:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFGaines50 min
Oct 15, 9:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFGaines48 min
Oct 16, 3:13 AM CDTHigh Wind WarningMAFCulberson23 hr
Oct 16, 1:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines35 min
Oct 16, 2:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFGaines31 min
Oct 16, 2:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFWard36 min
Oct 16, 2:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFJeff Davis36 min
Oct 16, 2:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFDawson30 min
Oct 16, 2:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFWard18 min
Oct 16, 3:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFWard13 min
Oct 16, 3:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFWard28 min
Oct 16, 3:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAF26 min
Oct 16, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Pecos, Ward46 min
Oct 16, 3:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFPecos29 min
Oct 16, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos19 min
Oct 16, 4:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAF26 min
Oct 16, 4:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFCrane30 min
Oct 16, 4:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFPecos29 min
Oct 16, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster, Pecos49 min
Oct 16, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Pecos, Upton44 min
Oct 16, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Upton47 min
Oct 16, 5:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFPecos36 min
Oct 16, 5:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFDawson29 min
Oct 16, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMAFReagan, Upton49 min
Oct 16, 6:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFDawson30 min
Oct 16, 6:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFPecos29 min
Oct 16, 6:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFReagan29 min
Oct 15, 7:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFLea41 min
Oct 15, 8:05 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFLea40 min
Oct 16, 12:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFLea29 min
Oct 16, 2:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFEddy26 min
Oct 16, 2:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFLea34 min
Oct 16, 3:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFLea23 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.