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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 10, 1989Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1989, 7:25 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 1989, 7:25 PM MDT (01:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1989, 8:30 PM MDT
In force
65 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.

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 10, 1:32 PM MDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
225 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1989

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR WEST TEXAS AND
AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...

AT 225 PM CDT...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN AND HAIL...WERE BUILDING RAPIDLY OVER MOST OF WEST TEXAS AND
SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO.

HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED NEAR SAN ANGELO...30 MILES WEST OF SARAGOSA...
AND JUST SOUTH OF THE MIDLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. MARBLE SIZE HAIL
AND HEAVY RAIN WAS REPORTED AT CHANNEL 9 AT 220 PM.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 7:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews65 min
Jun 10, 8:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving57 min
Jun 10, 6:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy59 min

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.