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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

July 20, 1994De Baca County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1994, 5:41 PM MDT for De Baca County, New Mexico. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 20, 1994, 5:41 PM MDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 1994, 6:45 PM MDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County De Baca County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Holloman AFB, NM (KHMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 228 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, Holloman AFB, NM at 12:00Z on 1994-07-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Holloman AFB, NM at 12:00Z on 1994-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -36 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 20, 3:25 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFEddy35 min

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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.