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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

September 12, 1991Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 1991, 12:53 AM MDT for Eddy 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 12, 1991, 12:53 AM MDT (06:53 UTC)
Expired
Sep 12, 1991, 2:00 AM MDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Eddy County, NM

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 12, 1:15 AM MDTThunderstorm Wind 0Eddy, 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, 6.9 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 00:00Z on 1991-09-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 641 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 00:00Z on 1991-09-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 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
641 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1932 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
31 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 11, 7:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFChaves, Eddy43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1991Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991

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.