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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 22, 2026Brewster County, Pecos County, Terrell County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 2026, 4:55 PM CDT for Brewster County, Pecos County, Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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 22, 2026, 4:55 PM CDT (21:55 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 2026, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 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 21:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 422 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3419 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 26 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 Apr 22, 1:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 1:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 22, 4:48 PM CDT, 7 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
Apr 22, 12:44 AM CDT	High Wind Watch	MAF	Culberson	24 hr
Apr 22, 3:45 AM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	MAF	Brewster, Culberson, Gaines, Jeff Davis, Loving, Presidio and 1 more	10 hr
Apr 22, 1:21 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	MAF	Brewster, Culberson, Gaines, Jeff Davis, Loving, Presidio and 1 more	33 hr
Apr 22, 4:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Terrell	27 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.