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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 22, 2025Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2025, 3:39 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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 22, 2025, 3:39 PM CDT (20:39 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2025, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

County Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 240 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: 3282 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 706 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 22, 3:14 PM CDT, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 3:14 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 22, 2:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
225 PM CDT Thu May 22 2025

TXZ075-222000-
Pecos TX-
225 PM CDT Thu May 22 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY THROUGH 300
PM CDT...

At 225 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 29
miles southeast of Fort Stockton, moving east at 5 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and nickel 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.

This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of central Pecos
County.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3047 10270 3060 10271 3067 10244 3042 10242
TIME...MOT...LOC 1925Z 268DEG 5KT 3054 10261

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 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 22, 2:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	35 min
May 22, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	48 min
May 22, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Pecos	62 min
May 22, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Pecos	58 min
May 22, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	65 min
May 22, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Brewster, Terrell	66 min
May 22, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Reagan, Upton	54 min
May 22, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Mitchell	45 min
May 22, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Reagan	42 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.