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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

September 9, 1987Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 1987, 4:20 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 9, 1987, 4:20 PM MDT (22:20 UTC)
Expired
Sep 9, 1987, 5:00 PM MDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Chaves 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

Holloman AFB, NM (KHMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 162 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, Holloman AFB, NM at 12:00Z on 1987-09-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 749 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Holloman AFB, NM at 12:00Z on 1987-09-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 122 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
749 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1786 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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The text

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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.