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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 28, 1993Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 1993, 7:06 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 28, 1993, 7:06 PM MDT (01:06 UTC)
Expired
Apr 28, 1993, 8:15 PM MDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Lea County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 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 00:00Z on 1993-04-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 717 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 00:00Z on 1993-04-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 133 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
717 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1389 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
470 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
5.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 290106
SVRMAF
NMC025-290215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
806 PM CDT (706 PM MDT) WED APR 28 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM CDT (815 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
 
   ...LEA COUNTY
 
AT 805 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF
HOBBS NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM IS TO SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN
HOUR.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN rSEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 9:37 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993

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.