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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 21, 1991Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 1991, 5:55 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 21, 1991, 5:55 PM MDT (23:55 UTC)
Expired
May 21, 1991, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Eddy County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 206 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 12:00Z on 1991-05-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 93 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 12:00Z on 1991-05-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 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
93 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-161 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
848 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KROW 220001
SVRROW
NMC015-220100-

BULLETIN...IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROSWELL NM
555 PM MDT TUE MAY 21 1991

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROSWELL HAS ISSUED HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE...

...IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...

                    EDDY  COUNTY

AT 545 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY WEATHER RADAR
JUST SOUTHWEST OF WHITE CITY NEW MEXICO AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT
25 MILES AN HOUR.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE TOWARD WHITE CITY AN CARLSBAD NEW
MEXICO DURING THE NEXT HOUR.


IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SEEK SHELTER
IN A REINFORCED SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR STRONG DAMAGING WINDS.. LARGE
HAIL..VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER AND/OR STORM DAMAGE CALL YOUR LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE
NEAREST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.