Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1991, 3:15 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 75 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
- Jun 6, 1991, 3:15 PM MDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1991, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 75 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chaves County, NM
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 3:15 PM MDT | Hail 4.5 | Chaves, NM | |
| Jun 6, 3:47 PM MDT | Hail 2 | Chaves, 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 264 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
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.7
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, Jun 6, 1:47 PM MDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-062045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 242 PM CDT THU JUN 6 1991 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR LEA COUNTY UNTIL 900 PM CDT THIS THURSDAY EVENING... AT 225 PM CDT AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR ALPINE TO WEST OF ROSWELL. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION IN AND NEAR THrE WATCH AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 6:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 60 min |
| Jun 6, 2:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reeves | 59 min |
| Jun 6, 3:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 67 min |
| Jun 6, 3:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 60 min |
| Jun 6, 4:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 63 min |
| Jun 6, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 60 min |
| Jun 6, 4:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 63 min |
| Jun 6, 5:03 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Dawson | 57 min |
| Jun 6, 5:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 55 min |
| Jun 6, 4:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 68 min |
Nearby
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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.