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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 218, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 6, 2025Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2025, 1:23 AM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 67 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 6, 2025, 1:23 AM CDT (06:23 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 2025, 2:30 AM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:22 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 5, 8:57 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 139 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 2025-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 769 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 2025-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 279 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
769 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1323 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
279 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
544 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.1
Supercell composite
13.6

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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 6, 1:13 AM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 1:13 AM CDT, 10 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 5, 7:39 PM CDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
739 PM CDT Mon May 5 2025

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

0718 PM     Landspout        1 N Otis                32.37N 104.17W
05/05/2025                   Eddy               NM   Public

            Short-lived (less than 2 minutes) landspout
            observed by the public 5 miles SE of
            Carlsbad moving north-northeastward around
            6:18 PM MDT/7:18 PM CDT. Landspout width was
            approximately 25 yards.

&&
Local storm report, May 5, 8:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
830 PM CDT Mon May 5 2025

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

0814 PM     Hail             2 E Carlsbad            32.40N 104.20W
05/05/2025  M1.00 Inch       Eddy               NM   Public

            Public reports of quarter size hail. Time
            was estimated by radar.

&&

KML
Local storm report, May 5, 8:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
850 PM CDT Mon May 5 2025

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

0820 PM     Hail             Carlsbad North          32.44N 104.22W
05/05/2025  M2.50 Inch       Eddy               NM   Public

            Multiple reports of Golf to Tennis ball size
            hail. Time was estimated by radar.

&&

KML
Local storm report, May 6, 1:21 AM CDT, 2 minutes before
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Local storm report, May 6, 1:23 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 7:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson, Gaines48 min
May 5, 7:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines51 min
May 5, 8:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews, Winkler55 min
May 5, 8:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving, Winkler51 min
May 5, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews, Winkler47 min
May 5, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews64 min
May 5, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews24 min
May 5, 9:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFAndrews3 hr
May 5, 10:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews, Dawson, Gaines24 min
May 5, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCulberson, Loving, Reeves65 min
May 5, 11:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMAFLoving, Winkler30 min
May 5, 11:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Pecos, Upton58 min
May 5, 11:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews, Ector, Winkler42 min
May 5, 11:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving38 min
May 5, 11:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos, Reeves, Ward29 min
May 5, 11:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Ector, Ward, Winkler56 min
May 5, 11:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews, Loving, Winkler66 min
May 5, 11:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Ector, Loving, Pecos, Reeves, Ward and 1 more47 min
May 6, 12:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson, Gaines24 min
May 6, 12:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos, Upton67 min
May 6, 12:27 AM CDTTornado WarningMAFCrane, Pecos, Reeves, Ward16 min
May 6, 12:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews, Ector, Martin, Midland31 min
May 6, 12:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews, Ector, Gaines, Loving, Ward, Winkler66 min
May 6, 12:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Pecos, Ward63 min
May 6, 1:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos14 min
May 6, 1:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Ector, Midland, Upton65 min
May 6, 2:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGlasscock, Midland, Reagan, Upton58 min
May 6, 3:52 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFHoward, Mitchell38 min
May 5, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy60 min
May 5, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy46 min
May 5, 8:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy35 min
May 5, 8:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy, Lea58 min
May 5, 9:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy, Lea67 min
May 5, 9:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy, Lea63 min
May 5, 9:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy, Lea53 min
May 5, 10:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy3 hr
May 5, 10:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy55 min
May 5, 10:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea58 min
May 5, 11:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea37 min
May 6, 12:35 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLea3 hr

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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.