Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 1:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 60 min |
| Jun 5, 2:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves, Eddy | 55 min |
| Jun 5, 4:04 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 56 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.