Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 1987
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1987, 3:23 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 67 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 26, 1987, 3:23 PM MDT (21:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1987, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 67 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 26, 4:23 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | 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, 9.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 612 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 624 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMAF 262123 RRA
TORMAF
NMC025-262230-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
323 PM MDT TUE MAY 26 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
...LEA
THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND 10 MILES SOUTH OF JAL NEW
MEXICO.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 26, 12:30 PM MDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
POST LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1138 PM CDT MON MAY 25 1987
TIME COUNTY EVENT
1603 CST WARD TXC475 PUBLIC RTPD FUNNEL 2NE OF BARSTOW.
1652 CST WARD TXC475 PUBLIC REPORTED TORNADO 5S OF BARSTOW.
1735 CST WARD TXC475 GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED AT PYOTE.
1746 CST LEA NMC025 STATE POLICE REPORTED TORNADO 10-15S OF
HOBBS.
1748 CST LEA NMC025 GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT EUNICE RPTD BY
STATE POLICE.
1809 CST PECOS TXC371 SKYWARN SPOTTER RPTD TORNADO 12SW OF
WARD TXC475 MONAHANS TX.
1823 CST WARD TXC475 SKYWARN SPOTTER RPTD TORNADO SOUTHWEST
OF MONAHANS MOVING NE.
1853 CST LEA NMC025 PUBLIC RPTD TORNADO 25SW OF HOBBS.
1906 CST LEA NMC025 SKYWARN SPOTTER RPTD TORNADO 22SW
HOBBS.
1917 CST LEA NMC025 STATE POLICE RPTD TORNADO 10W OF
MONUMENT.The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:53 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 7 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.