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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 5, 1988Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1988, 3:25 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 65 min. 2 reports 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 5, 1988, 3:25 PM MDT (21:25 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1988, 4:30 PM MDT
In force
65 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 5, 3:50 PM MDTHail 0.75Chaves, NM
May 5, 4:06 PM MDTHail 1.5Chaves, 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

El Paso Intl Airport, TX (KELP), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 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 12:00Z on 1988-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 289 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 12:00Z on 1988-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 144 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
289 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-255 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1540 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
175 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KROW 052127
SVRROW
NMC005-052125-

BULLETIN...IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROSWELL NM
325 PM MDT THU MAY 05 1988

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROSWELL HAS ISSUED HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM FOR PEOPLE IN THE
FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
                    ...CHAVES

AT 320 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR 15 MILES
SOUTHWEST TO WEST OF ROSWELL NEW MEXICO.  THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WAS MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE TOWNS OF ROSWELL...DEXTER...AND HAGERMAN
STAY ALERT FOR APPROACHING STORMS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY
LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR THE BUILDING YOU
ARE IN.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR STORM DAMAGE CALL YOUR LOCAL LAWW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 4:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFChaves55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

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.