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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 10, 1989Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 10, 1989, 4:00 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 1989, 4:00 PM MDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1989, 4:45 PM MDT
In force
45 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

El Paso Intl Airport, TX (KELP), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 211 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, El Paso Intl Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1989-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 54 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, El Paso Intl Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1989-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 111 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
54 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-326 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1588 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
176 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 10, 10:40 AM MDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
DELAYED POST LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1135 AM CDT WED MAY 10 1989

TIME (CST)   COUNTY          EVENT

0440 CST     MARTIN         PUBLIC REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL BTWN
             TXC317         TARZAN TX AND LENORAH TX.

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.