Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1990, 6:25 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 65 min. 2 reports 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
- Jul 27, 1990, 6:25 PM MDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1990, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chaves 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 6:25 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 74 | Chaves, NM | |
| Jul 27, 7:00 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Chaves, 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
El Paso Intl Airport, TX (KELP), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 354 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KROW 280030
SVRROW
NMC005-280130-
BULLETIN...IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROSWELL NM
625 PM MDT FRI JUL 27 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROSWELL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE
FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
...CHAVES
AT 625 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST A FEW MILES
SOUTHEAST OF ROSWELL AT EAST GRAND PLAINS. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS
MOVING TO THE SOUTH VERY SLOWLY.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS RECEIVED REPORTS OF WINDS OF 85 MILES
AN HOUR...TREES HAVE BEEN UPROOTED BY THESE WINDS.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM AS IT MOVES TO THE SOUTH AND
SOUTHEAST. SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR SMALL ROOM OR BASEMENT.
DO NOT TRY TO OUTRUN ANY SEVERE WEATHER IN AN AUTOMIBLE.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, Jul 27, 2:39 PM MDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-272200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 340 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990 AT 325 PM CDT...NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED FROM MARFA TEXAS TO HOBBS NEW MEXICO AND LUBBOCK TEXAS. SMALL HAIL WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC 15 MILES WEST OF PECOS IN REEVES COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS AND SOME RAINSHOWERS WERE LOCATED IN THE MOUNTAINS O?F SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR UPDATES AND POSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 3:44 PM MDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-272245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 443 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990 AT 430 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF GRANDFALLS...AND FROM NEAR SARAGOSA TO WEST OF KERMIT...AND IN THE VICINITY OF LUBBOCK. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM NORTH OF ALPINE TO VAN HORN TEXAS TO NEAR CARLSBAD CAVERNS IN NEW MEXICO TO THE LUBBOCK AREA OF TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HIGH WINDS...HAIL... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO...NOAA RADIO...OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 4:40 PM MDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-272345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 545 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990 AT 530 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED NEAR JAL NEW MEXICO...JUST NORTH OF HOBBS...AND SOUTHEAST OF SARAGOSA TEXAS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM ALPINE TO VAN HORN TEXAS TO NORTHWEST OF TATUM NEW MEXICO TO WEST OF GUTHRIE TEXAS THEN SOUTHWEST TO NEAR FORT STOCKTON. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HIGH WINDS...HAIL... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO...NOAA RADIO...OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 5:37 PM MDT, 48 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-280045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 640 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990 AT 630 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF SEMINOLE TEXAS...NEAR BROWNFIELD...AND NEAR MARATHON. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM SOUTH OF MARATHON TO THE GUADALUPE PASS TO NORTH OF TATUM NEW MEXICO ...AND FROM LUBBOCK TEXAS SOUTHWEST TO SOUTH OF KERMIT. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HIGH WINDS...HAIL... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO...NOAA RADIO...OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 6:13 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 11:37 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 2 hr |
| Jul 28, 1:43 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.