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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 28, 2025Midland County, Reagan County, Upton County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2025, 9:23 PM CDT for Midland County, Reagan County, Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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: Apr 28, 2025, 9:23 PM CDT (02:23 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2025, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Midland County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Upton County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 28, 3:58 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 411 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3248 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 283 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Apr 28, 6:18 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 6:18 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 28, 4:21 PM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
421 PM CDT Mon Apr 28 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0357 PM     Hail             10 SW Midkiff           31.53N 101.95W
04/28/2025  M1.75 Inch       Upton              TX   Public

            Ping Pong to Golf Ball size hail reported by
            public via social media. Time was estimated
            by radar.

&&

KML

Local storm report, Apr 28, 5:32 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 28, 5:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 28, 5:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before

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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
Apr 28, 10:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Glasscock	67 min
Apr 28, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Dawson, Gaines	59 min
Apr 29, 12:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Dawson, Gaines	55 min
Apr 29, 1:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	43 min
Apr 29, 1:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	44 min
Apr 29, 1:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Ward	63 min
Apr 29, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Upton	66 min
Apr 29, 2:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	44 min
Apr 29, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	67 min
Apr 29, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Upton	65 min
Apr 29, 3:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Borden, Martin	45 min
Apr 29, 3:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Terrell	42 min
Apr 29, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson	30 min
Apr 29, 3:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	24 min
Apr 29, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Upton	65 min
Apr 29, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson, Howard, Martin	48 min
Apr 29, 4:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Martin	51 min
Apr 29, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson	47 min
Apr 29, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	38 min
Apr 29, 4:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Upton	3 hr
Apr 29, 4:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Ector	49 min
Apr 29, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Pecos	65 min
Apr 29, 4:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Dawson	47 min
Apr 29, 5:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Dawson	38 min
Apr 29, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Reagan, Upton	49 min
Apr 29, 5:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Upton	46 min
Apr 29, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	44 min
Apr 29, 6:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reagan	51 min
Apr 29, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	51 min
Apr 29, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	31 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.