Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 1992

Tornado Warning 32, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 30, 1992Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 30, 1992, 4:32 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 30, 1992, 4:32 PM MDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 1992, 5:30 PM MDT
In force: 58 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KROW 302231
TORROW
NMC015-302330-

BULLETIN...EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROSWELL NM
432 PM MDT SAT MAY 30 1992

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

IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXCIO...

                  EDDY COUNTY

AT 425 PM MDT A LARGE FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED 10 MILES EAST OF 
ARTESIA AND WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR.
PEOPLE IN THE TOWNS OF RIVERSIDE AND LOCO HILLS SHOULD TAKE
SHELTER FROM THIS STORM.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER OR A
CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE
HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR STORM DAMAGE CALL YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCE-
MENT 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 tornado 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, 1 hour 3 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.

Special weather statement, May 30, 4:28 PM MDT, 4 minutes before

TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-302340-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
525 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 525 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SOUTH OF
CARLSBAD CAVERNS...NEAR ARTESIA AND NEAR GUADALUPE PASS.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE AROUND BALMORHEA AND WEST THROUGH NORTH
OF HOBBS.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 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, 4:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	65 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in New Mexico, 1992 Every tornado warning in 1992 Tornadoes 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.