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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 4, 2024Borden County, Scurry County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 2024, 12:31 PM CDT for Borden County, Scurry County, Texas. It was in force for 59 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 4, 2024, 12:31 PM CDT (17:31 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2024, 1:30 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 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 17:34 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 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-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: 1342 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -140 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 793 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.2

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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 4, 6:41 AM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 4, 6:41 AM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 4, 12:19 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
1219 PM CDT Sat May 4 2024

TXZ047-048-041800-
Scurry TX-Borden TX-
1219 PM CDT Sat May 4 2024

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN SCURRY AND EASTERN
BORDEN COUNTIES THROUGH 100 PM CDT...

At 1219 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles northwest of J B Thomas Reservoir, or 12 miles southeast of
Gail, moving north at 20 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Fluvanna and J B Thomas Reservoir.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3258 10118 3262 10138 3296 10140 3296 10117
      3297 10105 3296 10092
TIME...MOT...LOC 1719Z 193DEG 17KT 3268 10127

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

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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
May 3, 7:07 PM CDT	Dust Storm Advisory	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	38 min
May 4, 12:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Scurry	41 min
May 4, 1:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Scurry	66 min
May 4, 1:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Howard	51 min
May 4, 2:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Loving, Winkler	61 min
May 4, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis, Pecos, Reeves	66 min
May 4, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	56 min
May 4, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos, Reeves	33 min
May 4, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Loving, Winkler	66 min
May 4, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Pecos	47 min
May 4, 3:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MAF	Winkler	49 min
May 4, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Ector, Pecos, Reeves, Ward, Winkler	56 min
May 4, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	53 min
May 4, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Winkler	60 min
May 4, 4:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	44 min
May 4, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	39 min
May 4, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Ector, Winkler	54 min
May 4, 4:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	3 hr
May 4, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector, Ward, Winkler	57 min
May 4, 4:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	51 min
May 4, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Pecos, Reeves	47 min
May 4, 4:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Crane, Ector, Midland, Ward, Winkler	3 hr
May 4, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Glasscock, Martin, Midland	49 min
May 4, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Ector, Upton, Ward, Winkler	55 min
May 4, 5:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	39 min
May 4, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Ector, Midland, Upton	64 min
May 4, 5:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Dawson, Howard, Martin	38 min
May 4, 5:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	3 hr
May 4, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	67 min
May 4, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Midland, Upton	43 min
May 4, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	62 min
May 4, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland, Reagan, Upton	58 min
May 4, 6:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Reagan, Upton	47 min
May 4, 6:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson, Howard, Martin	3 hr
May 4, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson	43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.