Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 1993, 11:25 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 21, 1993, 11:25 PM MDT (05:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1993, 12:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Eddy County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 21, 5:51 PM MDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-220055- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 650 PM CDT (550 PM MDT) FRI MAY 21 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND MUCH OF WEST TEXAS UNTIL 11 PM CDT... 10 PM MDT... AT 628 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN HOBBS AND LOVINGTON NEW MEXICO...NEAR GOLDSMITH TEXAS...IN THE VICINITY OF MIDLAND...WEST OF LENORAH...WEST AND SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY AND NORTH OF LONGFELLOW. THE MOST INTENSE STORM WAS SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM SOUTH OF ORLA TO NEAR KERMIT. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. MINOR STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN HOBBS NEW MEXICO AND NORTHWEST ODESSA DURING THE PAST HOUR. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 21, 5:51 PM MDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-220055- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 650 PM CDT (550 PM MDT) FRI MAY 21 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND MUCH OF WEST TEXAS UNTIL 11 PM CDT... 10 PM MDT... AT 628 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN HOBBS AND LOVINGTON NEW MEXICO...NEAR GOLDSMITH TEXAS...IN THE VICINITY OF MIDLAND...WEST OF LENORAH...WEST AND SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY AND NORTH OF LONGFELLOW. THE MOST INTENSE STORM WAS SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM SOUTH OF ORLA TO NEAR KERMIT. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. MINOR STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN HOBBS NEW MEXICO AND NORTHWEST ODESSA DURING THE PAST HOUR. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 7:51 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Glasscock, Martin, Midland | 3 hr |
| May 21, 7:51 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
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.