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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 269, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 25, 2026, 4:48 PM CDT for Culberson County, Jeff Davis County, Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 42 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 25, 2026, 4:48 PM CDT (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2026, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Culberson County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Reeves County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 202 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 202 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1063 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 861 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
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 25, 4:33 PM CDT, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 25, 4:33 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 7:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Loving | 40 min |
| Sep 24, 7:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 46 min | |
| Sep 24, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 39 min |
| Sep 24, 8:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Jeff Davis | 40 min |
| Sep 24, 9:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 116 min |
| Sep 24, 9:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Culberson | 40 min |
| Sep 24, 9:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Brewster | 46 min |
| Sep 25, 3:12 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 8 hr |
| Sep 25, 7:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Gaines | 3 hr |
| Sep 25, 10:37 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 6 hr |
| Sep 25, 4:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Jeff Davis | 39 min |
| Sep 25, 5:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Reeves | 35 min |
| Sep 25, 5:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Reeves | 47 min |
| Sep 24, 7:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Eddy | 44 min |
| Sep 24, 7:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 118 min |
| Sep 25, 3:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Eddy | 30 min |
| Sep 25, 3:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Sep 25, 4:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Eddy | 37 min |
| Sep 25, 5:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 35 min |
| Sep 25, 5:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Eddy | 30 min |
| Sep 25, 5:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 3 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.