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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 25, 1992Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1992, 4:52 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 25, 1992, 4:52 PM MDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 1992, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
68 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, 10.9 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 1992-06-25Temperature 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 1992-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 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
3428 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
31 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 KABQ 252254
SVRROW
NMC005-260000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROSWELL NM
ISSUED BY ALBUQUERQUE NM
452 PM MDT THU JUN 25 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
 
   ...CENTRAL CHAVES COUNTY
 
AT 445 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR
10 MILES NORTH OF ROSWELL NEW MEXICO. THE SEVERE THUDNERSTORM
IS ABOUT 5 MILES IN DIAMETER AND IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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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.