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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 247, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

September 19, 2026Jeff Davis County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 19, 2026, 1:22 PM CDT for Jeff Davis County, Texas. It was in force for 23 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: Sep 19, 2026, 1:22 PM CDT (18:22 UTC)
Expired: Sep 19, 2026, 1:45 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Jeff Davis County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 230 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 351 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: 2389 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 658 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 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 Sep 19, 12:39 PM CDT, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 19, 12:39 PM CDT, 43 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
Sep 19, 1:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Jeff Davis	45 min
Sep 19, 1:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis	3 hr
Sep 19, 2:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Jeff Davis	49 min
Sep 19, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson, Jeff Davis, Reeves	40 min
Sep 19, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	15 min
Sep 19, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis, Presidio	22 min
Sep 19, 2:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis, Reeves	3 hr
Sep 19, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Pecos	31 min
Sep 19, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	24 min
Sep 19, 3:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	3 hr
Sep 19, 3:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Yoakum	53 min
Sep 19, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	36 min
Sep 19, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	47 min
Sep 19, 4:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	43 min
Sep 19, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	40 min
Sep 19, 4:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Pecos	2 hr
Sep 19, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	34 min
Sep 19, 4:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Yoakum	45 min
Sep 19, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	52 min
Sep 19, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Pecos	45 min
Sep 19, 5:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	60 min
Sep 19, 5:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Brewster	2 hr
Sep 19, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Pecos	44 min
Sep 19, 6:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Andrews	39 min
Sep 19, 6:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Brewster, Pecos	118 min
Sep 19, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	35 min
Sep 18, 7:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Eddy	3 hr
Sep 19, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	41 min

Nearby

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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.