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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 30, 1992Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1992, 4:25 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 30, 1992, 4:25 PM MDT (22:25 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 1992, 5:30 PM MDT
In force: 65 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, 10.4 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: 631 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 188 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 302225
SVRROW
NMC015-302330-

BULLETIN...IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROSWELL NM
425 PM MDT SAT MAY 30 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROSWELL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE...

...IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...

            SOUTHERN EDDY COUNTY

AT 420 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR NEAR WHITE
CITY SOUTH OF CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO.  THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS
MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE EAST.

IF YOU ARE ANYWHERE NEAR WHITES CITY AND SOUTH TO THE TEXAS LINE.
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

Special weather statement, May 30, 3:29 PM MDT, 56 minutes before

TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-302240-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
425 PM CDT THU MAY 28 1992

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR FAR WEST TEXAS AND
PORTIONS OF NEW MEXICO UNTIL 900 PM CDT...800 PM MDT...

AT 425 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE NEAR BALMORHEA
AND AROUND GUADALUPE PASS. SHOWERS WERE WEST THROUGH NORTH OF
CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST5 AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 2:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	52 min
May 30, 3:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	60 min
May 30, 4:32 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Eddy	58 min

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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.