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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

September 28, 1990Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 28, 1990, 5:08 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 67 min. 1 report 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: Sep 28, 1990, 5:08 PM MDT (23:08 UTC)
Expired: Sep 28, 1990, 6:15 PM MDT
In force: 67 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 28, 5:15 PM MDT	Hail 1	Lea, 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 87 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -168 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1131 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 282310
SVRMAF
NMC025-290015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
608 PM CDT (508 PM MDT) FRI SEP 28 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM CDT (615 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN LEA COUNTY
 
AT 503 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
VICINITY OF JAL NEW MEXICO. FLOODING AND GOLFBALL SIZE
HAIL WAS ALSO REPORTED IN VICINITY OF JAL.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVXE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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, Sep 28, 1:43 PM MDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before

TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-282045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
243 PM CDT FRI SEP 28 1990

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP NEAR THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS...

AT 230 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED TO
DEVELOP NEAR THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS. THESE STORMS
WERE SCATTERED FROM SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON TO NEAR FORT DAVIS.
THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS 20 MILES EAST OF FORT DAVIS.

VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS DETECTED.

THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING
AND VERY HEAVY DOWN POURS OF RAIN. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT...FLOODING
CAN OCCUR IN LOW LYING AREAS VERY FAST.

ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS AND RAIN SHOWERS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE
WIDELY SCATTERED BETWEEN LUBBOCK AND SAN ANGELO.
THESE SHOWERS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.

WITH PLENTY OF ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE AND DAYTIME HEATING...SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTI6NUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS WEST TEXAS THIS
AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR AREA RADIO AND
TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.