Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 4, 1986, 8:30 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
- Sep 4, 1986, 8:30 PM MDT (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 1986, 9:30 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 00:00Z, 2.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 526 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1990 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 4, 2:30 PM MDT, 6 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 330 PM CDT THU AUG 4 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE PERMIAN BASIN TODAY... AT 325 PM CDT..THUNDERSTORMS..SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE IN- CREASING IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO..THE PECOS VALLEY..SOUTH PLAINS PORTION OF THE CONCHO VALLEY AND THE BIG COUNTRY. SOME OF THE HEAVIER RAIN WERE BIG SPRING TO SWEETWATER AND STERLING CITY. ALSO WEST OF GOLDSMITH.MOVEMNT WAS NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR DANGER OF FLASH FLOODING. BE ALERT FOR RISING WATER AND LISTEN FOR STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO..LOCAL RADIO OR TV. IF FLOODING OCCURRS..MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND QUICKLY.
Special weather statement, Sep 4, 3:45 PM MDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 435 PM CDT THU AUG 4 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE PERMIAN BASIN..SOUTH PLAINS..SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS..CONCHO VALLEY AND BIG BEND COUNTRY FOR THIS AFTERNOON TONIGHT AND FRIDAY... AT 425 PM...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN GLASSCOCK COUNTY NEAR GARDEN CITY AND JUST WEST OF HOBBS. THUNDERSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED FROM LAMESA NORTH TO LUBBOCK..FROM STERLING CITY TO SWEETWATER AND FROM MARFA TO FORT STOCKTON. THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING WILL CONTINUE TO FRIDAY WITH THE REMNANTS OF A TROPICAL SYSTEM MOVING INTO THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF WEST TEXAS. THE ALREADY SATURATED SOILS FROM ABOVE NORMAL RAINS OF THE PAST FEW DAYS WILL INCREASE THE THREAT OF FLOODING. RAPID RUNOFF MAY OCCUR WITH LESSER AMOUNTS THAN USUAL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO..LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Sep 4, 4:36 PM MDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 540 PM CDT THU AUG 4 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE PERMIAN BASIN..SOUTH PLAINS..SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS..CONCHO VALLEY AND BIG BEND COUNTRY FOR THIS AFTERNOON TONIGHT AND FRIDAY... AT 525 PM...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR GARDEN CITY AND TAHOKA. THUNDERSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING WILL CONTINUE TO FRIDAY WITH THE REMNANTS OF A TROPICAL SYSTEM MOVING INTO THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF WEST TEXAS. THE ALREADY SATURATED SOILS FROM ABOVE NORMAL RAINS OF THE PAST FEW DAYS WILL INCREASE THE THREAT OF FLOODING. RAPID RUNOFF MAY OCCUR WITH LESSER AMOUNTS THAN USUAL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO..LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Sep 4, 5:44 PM MDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 640 PM CDT THU AUG 4 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE PERMIAN BASIN..SOUTH PLAINS..SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS..CONCHO VALLEY AND BIG BEND COUNTRY FOR THIS AFTERNOON TONIGHT AND FRIDAY... AT 625 PM...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM BAKERSFIELD NORTH TO RANKIN AND GARDEN CITY. THUNDERSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED IN EASTERN NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS. THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING WILL CONTINUE TO FRIDAY WITH THE REMNANTS OF A TROPICAL SYSTEM MOVING INTO THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF WEST TEXAS. THE ALREADY SATURATED SOILS FROM ABOVE NORMAL RAINS OF THE PAST FEW DAYS WILL INCREASE THE 'THREAT OF FLOODING. RAPID RUNOFF MAY OCCUR WITH LESSER AMOUNTS THAN USUAL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO..LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Sep 4, 6:38 PM MDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 735 PM CDT THU AUG 4 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE PERMIAN BASIN..SOUTH PLAINS..SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS..CONCHO VALLEY AND BIG BEND COUNTRY TONIGHT AND FRIDAY... AT 725 PM...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM RANKIN NORTH TO GARDEN CITY. NO MOVEMENT WAS DETECTED IN THE PAST HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS WERE EAST OF MARATHON AND WEST OF POST. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE AND THAT THE CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE. SATURATED GROUND AND OVERFLOWING STREAMS WILL PRODUCE RAPID RUNOFF WITH ANY ADDITIONAL ACCUMULATION. MANY FLASH FLOOD DEATHS RESULT FROM MOPTORIST DRIVING INTO WATER-COVERED CROSSINGS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH.
Special weather statement, Sep 4, 7:39 PM MDT, 51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 6:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Chaves | 65 min |
| Sep 4, 8:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 60 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.