Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 1989, 3:57 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report 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
- Sep 12, 1989, 3:57 PM MDT (21:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 1989, 5:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 4:42 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Lea, 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
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 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, Sep 12, 3:46 PM MDT, 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 435 PM CDT TUE SEP 12 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PARTS OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO FROM 500 PM UNTIL 1000 PM CDT... AT 425 PM...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME VERY HEAVY...WERE WIDELY SCATTERED IN A 135 MILE WIDE AREA FROM 35 MILES NORTH OF LUBBOCK TO 30 MILES WEST OF SEIRRA BLANCA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. DURING THE LAST HOUR A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WENT THROUGH ROSWELL NEW MEXICO AND REPORTS OF GRAPEFRUIT SIZE HAIL HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. THIS STORM IS WEAKENING BUT MOVING EAST ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR, AND TOWARD NORTHERN LEA COUNTY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO, TV OR LOCAL RADIO STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 5:17 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson | 3 hr |
| Sep 12, 5:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 57 min |
| Sep 12, 2:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 60 min |
| Sep 12, 3:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | De Baca | 50 min |
| Sep 12, 4:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 52 min |
| Sep 12, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989
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.