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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 2026, 5:37 PM CDT for Brewster County, Pecos County, Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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 16, 2026, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2026, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 1.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Brewster County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Terrell County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 192 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 341 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1862 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
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 16, 1:19 PM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 1:19 PM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 1:53 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MAF | Andrews, Culberson, Dawson, Gaines, Martin | 24 hr |
| Apr 16, 10:52 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | MAF | Culberson | 33 hr |
| Apr 16, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos, Terrell | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 30 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.