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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 20, 1991Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1991, 5:00 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report 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 20, 1991, 5:00 PM MDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 1991, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Chaves County, NM

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 20, 5:10 PM MDTHail 0.75Chaves, 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, Jun 20, 3:41 PM MDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-202250-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
436 PM CDT THU JUN 20 1991

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF WEST
TEXAS AND LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO...

AT 425 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL WAS 15
MILES NORTH OF ALPINE. THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND RAINSHOWERS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND THE
SOUTHEAST CORNER OF NEW MEXICO.

MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST 15 MILES AN HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATEST
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 4:46 PM MDT, 14 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-202350-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
540 PM CDT THU JUN 20 1991

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN LEA COUNTY
NEW MEXICO UNTIL 512 PM CDT (412 PM MDT)...
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF WEST
TEXAS AND LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO...

AT 525 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL WAS 20
MILES NORTHWEST OF TATUM NEW MEXICO. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN
WERE NEAR PECOS...FORT DAVIS AND ALPINE. THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS
WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF
NEW MEXICO.

MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST 15} MILES AN HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATEST
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 4:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea58 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data.