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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 22, 1987Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1987, 5:34 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 56 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 1987, 5:34 PM MDT (23:34 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 1987, 6:30 PM MDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Lea County, NM

The radar

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

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 22, 5:50 PM MDT	Hail 1.75	Lea, NM

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 147 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: 2177 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 3.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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

Local storm report, May 22, 12:30 PM MDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 3:17 PM MDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
410 PM CDT FRI MAY 22 1987

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTHWESTERN
REEVES COUNTY UNTIL 430 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

AT 355 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...1 3/4 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED IN
SOUTHWEST REEVES COUNTY. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES THAT
THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST...AT 15 MPH.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO
NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVlERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 7:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Howard	64 min
May 21, 9:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden	52 min
May 22, 2:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	66 min
May 22, 1:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	De Baca	60 min
May 22, 1:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Chaves	60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1987 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.