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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 31, 1991Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 31, 1991, 8:42 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 31, 1991, 8:42 PM MDT (02:42 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1991, 9:15 PM MDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Eddy County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 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 00:00Z on 1991-06-01Temperature 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1991-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 010243
TORROW
NMC015-010315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROSWELL NM
ISSUED BY ALBUQUERQUE NM
842 PM MDT FRI MAY 31 1991
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN EDDY COUNTY
 
AT 840 PM MDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC BETWEEN
OTIS AND LOVING NEW MEXICO...WHICH IS ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF CARLSBAD.  THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CONTAINING THE TORNADO
WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILA{BLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 6:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea62 min
May 31, 7:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy67 min
May 31, 9:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFChaves, Eddy42 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.