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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 11, 1991Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1991, 6:07 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 68 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: May 11, 1991, 6:07 PM MDT (00:07 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 1991, 7:15 PM MDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Lea County, NM

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 11, 6:20 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Lea, NM
May 11, 6:45 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 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 11, 3:35 PM MDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-120000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
425 PM CDT SAT MAY 11 1991

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT...

AT 425 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED NEAR
GRANDFALLS AND PYOTE MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST.

THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED IN WESTERN REEVES COUNTY.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGxS.

Special weather statement, May 11, 5:45 PM MDT, 22 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 12, 5:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	60 min
May 12, 5:58 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Upton	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1991 Every 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.