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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

July 9, 1986Chaves County, Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1986, 3:00 PM MDT for Chaves County, Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 9, 1986, 3:00 PM MDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 1986, 4:00 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

El Paso Intl Airport, TX (KELP), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 226 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, El Paso Intl Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 529 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, El Paso Intl Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -30 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 kmRMLM
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
529 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1277 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 2:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFChaves, Eddy56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

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.