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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 29, 2024Borden County, Scurry County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2024, 3:22 AM CDT for Borden County, Scurry County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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
May 29, 2024, 3:22 AM CDT (08:22 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 2024, 4:15 AM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
70.0 mph

Counties Borden County, TX, Scurry County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:24 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 131 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 00:00Z on 2024-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 771 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 00:00Z on 2024-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 204 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
771 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-329 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2516 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
204 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-1.0

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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 May 29, 12:38 AM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 12:38 AM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 28, 10:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMAFScurry26 min
May 28, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMAFBorden, Scurry38 min
May 28, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden, Scurry17 min
May 28, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFScurry19 min
May 29, 2:39 AM CDTHeat AdvisoryMAFBrewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Presidio, Reeves18 hr
May 29, 4:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFScurry43 min
May 29, 5:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAF39 min
May 29, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster, Jeff Davis, Pecos60 min
May 29, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster42 min
May 29, 6:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFPecos49 min
May 29, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster, Pecos37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2024Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2024

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.