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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 5, 1991Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1991, 2:40 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1991, 2:40 PM MDT (20:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1991, 3:30 PM MDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Chaves County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

El Paso Intl Airport, TX (KELP), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, El Paso Intl Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1991-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1991-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -81 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 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 052044
SVRROW
NMC005-052230-

BULLETIN...IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROSWELL NM
240 PM MDT WED JUN 5 1991

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROSWELL HAS ISSUED HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM FOR PEOPLE...

...IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...

                    CHAVES COUNTY

AT 240 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OCCURRING AT THE ROSWELL 
AIRPORT AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.  THIS SEVERE THUNDER
STORM PRODUCED WINDS TO 51 MILES AN HOUR AT THE RIAC.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AS IT MOVES EAST
BE PREPARED TO SEEK 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.

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, Jun 5, 1:36 PM MDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-052045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
230 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1991

...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WEST TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO...

AT 230 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL
WAS WEST OF BALMORHEA AND SARAGOSA. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY
HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL WAS WEST OF CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO.

OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE BUILDING RAPIDLY ACROSS MUCH
OF WEST TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO WITH THE STRONGEST BEING OBSERVED WEST OF
FORT STOCKTON AND SOUTHWEST OF MARFA.

VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT IS BEING OBSERVED WITH MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHwER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 1:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy60 min
Jun 5, 2:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFChaves, Eddy55 min
Jun 5, 4:04 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFLea56 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.