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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 27, 1992Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1992, 4:30 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 1992, 4:30 PM MDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 1992, 5:15 PM MDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Eddy County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 996 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 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 KROW 272229
SVRROW
NMC015-272315-

BULLETIN...IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROSWELL NM
430 PM MDT WED MAY 27 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROSWELL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE...

...IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...

           EASTERN EDDY COUNTY

AT 425 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED ABOUT 20 MILES EAST
OF ARTESIA AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.  THIS SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED A FUNNEL CLOUD AT 420 PM MDT.

IF YOU ARE IN THE TOWNS OF LOCO HILLS GET TO A REINFORCED SHELTER AND
PREPARE FOR STRONG DAMAGING WINDS.. LARGE HAIL..VERY HEAVY RAIN AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER AND/OR STORM DAMAGE CALL YOUR LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE
NEAREST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.

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

Local storm report, May 27, 2:02 PM MDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TEXAS
200 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1992

DELAYED REPORT FOR MAY 22 1992

TIME (CDT)  COUNTY     EVENT
2000        ECTOR      TREE BLOWN OVER ON TRAILER HOUSE NORTHWEST ODESSA.
            TXC135

DELAYED REPORTS FOR MAY 23 1992

1000 AND     ANDREWS    OVERFLOW PARKS FULL AND ROADS COVERED WITH WATER
2200         TXC003

1000 AND     GAINES      LOW LYING AREAS OF STREETS AND ROADS AROUND
2200         TXC165      SEMINOLE COVERED WITH WATER.

0930         CRANE       LOTS OF STREET AND HIGHWAY FLOODING.
             TXC103
1030          LEA                   FLOODING CONTINUING
              NMC025

2000          LEA                   FLOODING CONTINUING
              NMC025

2030          CRANE                 ROADS AND STREETS FLOODED
              TXC103

2100          ECTOR                 CITY WRECKERS CALLED TO TOW
              TXC135                POLICE CARS...AMONG MAN#Y OTHERS.

Special weather statement, May 27, 3:37 PM MDT, 53 minutes before

TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-280300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
425 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1992

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT...

AT 425 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED
SOUTH OF ROSWELL TO PECOS AND SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON. A THUNDERSTORM
WAS EAST OF SAN ANGELO NEAR BALLINGER.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.

PERSONS IN WESTERN TEXAS AND SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO ARE ADVISED TO STAY
ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO
RELAY SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS TO THE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR
NEAREST WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.
.

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1992 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.