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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

September 22, 1988Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 22, 1988, 6:45 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 22, 1988, 6:45 PM MDT (00:45 UTC)
Expired
Sep 22, 1988, 7:30 PM MDT
In force
45 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

Holloman AFB, NM (KHMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 162 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, Holloman AFB, NM at 00:00Z on 1988-09-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Holloman AFB, NM at 00:00Z on 1988-09-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2563 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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.