Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1989, 4:45 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 1989, 4:45 PM MDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1989, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Eddy 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -400 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 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 KABQ 182250 COR
SVRROW
NMC015-182345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION..
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
445 PM MDT TUE JUL 18 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
...EDDY
AT 4:25 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH WIND GUSTS OF 76 MPH WERE
REPORTED AT THE CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO AIRPORT ALONG WITH 3/4 INCH HAIL.
A TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN NEAR THE AIRPORT ENTRANCE. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS
INDICATED.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIhGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Jul 18, 3:50 PM MDT, 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 443 PM CDT TUE JUL 18 1989 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER WEST TEXAS AND LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO... AT 425 PM CDT...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... WAS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER PARTS OF WEST TEXAS AND LEA COUNTU NEW MEXICO. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTHWEST OF HOBBS NEW MEXICO AND NORTHWEST OF ABILENE TEXAS. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. THE AREA COVERED A 200 MILE WIDE REGION AND WAS MIXED WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND RAINSHOWERS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATEST DETAILS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 3:51 PM MDT, 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 443 PM CDT TUE JUL 18 1989 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER WEST TEXAS AND LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO... AT 425 PM CDT...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... WAS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER PARTS OF WEST TEXAS AND LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTHWEST OF HOBBS NEW MEXICO AND NORTHWEST OF ABILENE TEXAS. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. THE AREA COVERED A 200 MILE WIDE REGION AND WAS MIXED WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND RAINSHOWERS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATEST DETAILS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 4:42 PM MDT, 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 536 PM CDT TUE JUL 18 1989 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER PARTS OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... AT 525 P
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.