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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 1, 1989Andrews County, Texas; Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1989, 5:58 PM CDT for Andrews County, Texas; Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 1, 1989, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 1989, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

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, Jun 1, 4:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
437 PM CDT THU JUN 1 1989

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF WEST TEXAS AND
   LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO UNTIL 1000 PM CDT...

AT 430 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE NEAR LUBBOCK
WITH LITTLE MOVEMENT IN THE PAST HOUR.

THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED FROM NORTH OF TATUM NEW
MEXICO SOUTH TO HOBBS AND TO FORT DAVIS.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...
STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO/TV STATION FOR
FURTHER UPDATES.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews59 min
Jun 1, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves41 min
Jun 1, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden68 min
Jun 1, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea46 min
Jun 1, 6:59 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFDe Baca61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1989Severe 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.