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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 21, 1987Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 21, 1987, 6:40 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 21, 1987, 6:40 PM MDT (00:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1987, 7:40 PM MDT
In force
60 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

El Paso Intl Airport, TX (KELP), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 251 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, El Paso Intl Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1987-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 27 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, El Paso Intl Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1987-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3734 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 tornado 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, Jun 21, 2:33 PM MDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
330 PM CDT SUN JUN 21 1987

...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED RAPIDLY IN WEST TEXAS NORTH OF THE
BIG BEND. THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM THE BIG BEND NORTH INTO
SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...
VERY HEAVY RAINS...DEADLY LIGHTNING= AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.

IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION GET TO SAFETY AND RELAY
ANY SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS TO THE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR
THE NEAREST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 7:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy60 min

Nearby

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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.