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Excessive Heat Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this excessive heat warning at Aug 20, 2024, 1:04 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Scurry County, Texas. It took effect at Aug 21, 2024, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 33 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 20, 2024, 1:04 PM CDT (18:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 21, 2024, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2024, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Counties Mitchell County, TX, Scurry County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:08 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 309 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
- 2815 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 1:04 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Crane, Culberson, Dawson and 14 more | 56 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.