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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 23, 1987Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 23, 1987, 11:38 AM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 23, 1987, 11:38 AM MDT (17:38 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 1987, 12:45 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1987-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 70 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1987-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 155 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 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
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 8:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy58 min
May 22, 9:00 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy60 min
May 22, 9:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy60 min
May 22, 10:00 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy2 hr
May 23, 11:28 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea62 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.