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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

July 20, 1993Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jul 20, 1993, 5:30 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 20, 1993, 5:30 PM MDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 20, 1993, 6:15 PM MDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Chaves County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

El Paso Intl Airport, TX (KELP), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 251 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: 269 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -138 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1230 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 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 202341
TORROW
NMC005-210015-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROSWELL NM
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
530 PM MDT TUE JUL 20 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE......
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
 
   ...CHAVES COUNTY
 
AT 525 PM MDT THE ROSWELL POLICE REPORTED A PUBLIC SIGHTING OF A TORNADO
5 TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROSWELL. RADAR INDICATES THUNDERSTORMS IN
CHAVES COUNTY ARE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

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, Jul 20, 3:35 PM MDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-202240-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
435 PM CDT TUE JUL 20 1993

     ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN PERMIAN BASIN...

AT 432 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE NORTH OF
MENTONE...NEAR KERMIT...WEST OF SEMINOLE...WEST OF PENWELL...NEAR
SANDERSON AND SOUTHEAST OF GUADALUPE PASS. SOME MAY PRODUCE VERY
STRONG GUSTY WIND...SMALL HAIL...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST 15 MILES AN HOUR.

ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY
RAIN...WERE LOCATED OVER THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAIN...SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
...WESTERN PERMIAN BASIN...EXTENDING SOUTH TO THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS AND
BIG BEND. SHOWERS WERE ALSO AROUND SAN ANGELO AND SOUTHEAST OF LUBBOCK.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER
STATEMENTS.

Special weather statement, Jul 20, 3:42 PM MDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-202240-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
435 PM CDT TUE JUL 20 1993

     ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN PERMIAN BASIN...

AT 432 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE NORTH OF
MENTONE...NEAR KERMIT...WEST OF SEMINOLE...WEST OF PENWELL...NEAR
SANDERSON AND SOUTHEAST OF GUADALUPE PASS. SOME MAY PRODUCE VERY
STRONG GUSTY WIND...SMALL HAIL...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST 15 MILES AN HOUR.

ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY
RAIN...WERE LOCATED OVER THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAIN...SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
...WESTERN PERMIAN BASIN...EXTENDINGh SOUTH TO THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS AND
BIG BEND. SHOWERS WERE ALSO AROUND SAN ANGELO AND SOUTHEAST OF LUBBOCK.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER
STATEMENTS.

Special weather statement, Jul 20, 4:30 PM MDT, 1 hour before

TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-202340-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
530 PM CDT TUE JUL 20 1993

     ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN PERMIAN BASIN...

AT 530 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE NEAR ODESSA
...NORTH OF CRANE...NEAR GOLDSMITH...NEAR BROWNFIELD AND NORTH OF
SANDERSON. ONE HAS PRODUCED PEA SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN IN ODESSA.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST 15 MILES AN HOUR.

ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY
RAIN...WERE LOCATED OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS...SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...
THE WESTERN PERMIAN BASIN...EXTENDING SOUTH TO THE RIO GRANDE AND WEST
TO NEAR EL PASO. SHOWERS WERE INSIDE THE AREA FROM SAN ANGELO TO
LUBBOCK TO NEAR ALBILENE.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR
FURTHER STATEMENTS.

Special weather statement, Jul 20, 4:34 PM MDT, 56 minutes before

TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-202340-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
530 PM CDT TUE JUL 20 1993

     ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN PERMIAN BASIN...

AT 530 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE NEAR ODESSA
...NORTH OF CRANE...NEAR GOLDSMITH...NEAR BROWNFIELD AND NORTH OF
SANDERSON. ONE HAS PRODUCED PEA SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN IN ODESSA.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST 15 MILES AN HOUR.

ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY
RAIN...WERE LOCATED OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS...SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...
THE WESTERN PERMIAN BASIN...EXTENDING SOUTH TO THE RIO GRANDE AND WEST
TO NEAR EL PASO. SHOWERS WERE INSIDE THE AREA FROM SAN ANGELO TO
LUBBOCK TO NEAR ALBILENE.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR
FURTHER STATEMENTS.

Special weather statement, Jul 20, 5:30 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-210040-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
630 PM CDT TUE JUL 20 1993

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN PERMIAN BASIN AND SOUTH PLAINS...

AT 630 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER ODESSA
THE AIRPORT AND MIDLAND...WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF BROWNFIELD AND
SOUTHEAST OF FORT STOCKTON. PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL AND WINDS UP TO
50 MILES AN HOUR WERE REPORTED IN NORTHWEST ODESSA DURING THE PAST
HOUR.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST 15 MILES AN HOUR.

ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY
RAIN...WERE WEST OF A LUBBOCK...BIG SPRING...DRYDEN LINE AND EXTENDED
WEST INTO NEW MEXICO AND FAR WEST TEXAS TO EL PASO.

SHOWERS WERE AROUND SAN ANGELO.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR
FURTHER STATEMENTS.

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
630 PM CDT TUE JUL 20 1993

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Nearby

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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.