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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 17, 1990Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1990, 8:40 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 17, 1990, 8:40 PM MDT (02:40 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 1990, 9:45 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 nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1990-05-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 502 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1990-05-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
502 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1663 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
4.6

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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 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, May 17, 5:39 PM MDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-180045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
636 PM CDT THU MAY 17 1990

AT 625 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED 10
MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT DAVIS...AND OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY
SCATTERED FROM WEST OF HOT SPRINGS IN THE BIG BEND AREA TO WEST
AND NORTH OF MARFA.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE HIGH WINDS...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK A PLACE OF SAFETY IMMEDIATELY.
PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS
OR WARNINGS.

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.