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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 23, 1987Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1987, 11:28 AM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 1987, 11:28 AM MDT (17:28 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 1987, 12:30 PM MDT
In force: 62 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 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: 70 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -125 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 724 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 328 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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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, May 23, 5:39 AM MDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 23, 6:37 AM MDT, 4 hours 51 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
May 22, 6:37 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Reeves	2 hr
May 22, 6:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	2 hr
May 22, 6:54 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Reeves	66 min
May 22, 8:04 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos, Reeves	56 min
May 22, 10:15 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Ector	2 hr
May 23, 8:36 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector, Ward	54 min
May 23, 9:03 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector, Winkler	57 min
May 23, 9:28 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	62 min
May 23, 9:40 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	65 min
May 23, 9:50 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	55 min
May 23, 10:43 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	62 min
May 23, 10:43 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Winkler	77 min
May 23, 1:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	58 min
May 23, 1:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	60 min
May 23, 2:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	28 min
May 23, 2:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	50 min
May 23, 3:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Loving	59 min
May 23, 4:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	56 min
May 22, 8:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	58 min
May 22, 9:00 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Eddy	60 min
May 22, 9:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	60 min
May 22, 10:00 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Eddy	2 hr
May 23, 11:38 AM MDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Lea	67 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.