Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1994, 4:37 PM MDT for De Baca County, New Mexico. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 1994, 4:37 PM MDT (22:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1994, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County De Baca County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -471 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2303 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABQ 092239 SVRROW NMC011-092345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROSWELL NM ISSUED BY ALBUQUERQUE NM 437 PM MDT SAT JUL 9 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE...... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...NORTHERN DE BACA COUNTY AT 430 PM MDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED BY WEATHER RADAR FROM 25 MILES NORTH OF FT SUMNER NEW MEXICO TO 35 MILES WEST OF FT SUMNER. THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS ABOUT 5 TO 10 MILES WIDE AND IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH. THE LINE OF SEVERE STORMS SHOULD REACH YESO BETWEEN 515 PM AND 530 PM MDT AND FT SUMNER AROUND 530 PM MDT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, Jul 9, 3:47 PM MDT, 50 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ029-092250- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 446 PM CDT (346 PM MDT) SAT JUL 9 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED SOUTHWEST OF THE MIDLAND-ODESSA AREA... AT 430 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAD DEVELOPED ON THE WARD-CRANE COUNTY LINE ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF MONAHANS. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WAS NORTHEAST AT LESS THAN 10 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WAS PART OF AN AREA OF WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSHOWERS THAT WERE LOCATED FROM A CRANE-MONAHANS LINE TO AS FAR SOUTHWEST AS THE VICINITY OF ALPINE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WIND...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV@ STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 4:34 PM MDT, 3 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ029-092335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 534 PM CDT (434 PM MDT) SAT JUL 9 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE NEAR THE PECOS RIVER... AT 528 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED ALONG AND NORTH OF THE PECOS RIVER FROM EAST OF PYOTE TO NORTH OF MCCAMEY. MOVEMENT WAS SLOWLY NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR OR LESS. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF AN AREA OF WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED AS FAR WEST AS GUADALUPE PASS...AND AS FAR SOUTHWEST AS THE VICINITY OF MARATHON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN 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. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFOR*MATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 11:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 40 min |
| Jul 9, 12:25 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 50 min |
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.