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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 207, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 31, 1992Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 1992, 12:28 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 62 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
Aug 31, 1992, 12:28 PM MDT (18:28 UTC)
Expired
Aug 31, 1992, 1:30 PM MDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Lea County, NM

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 31, 1:12 PM MDTHail 0.75Lea, 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 147 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 12:00Z on 1992-08-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 447 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1992-08-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 86 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
447 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1169 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 31, 2:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson59 min
Aug 31, 2:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves57 min
Aug 31, 2:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin56 min
Aug 31, 4:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy39 min
Aug 31, 4:46 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy119 min
Aug 31, 4:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy119 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.