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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 10, 1994Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1994, 3:10 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 1994, 3:10 PM MDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1994, 4:15 PM MDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Chaves County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Holloman AFB, NM (KHMN), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 162 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 1994-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 130 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 1994-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 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
130 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-149 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1774 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 2:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFChaves50 min
May 10, 4:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDe Baca62 min
May 10, 5:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy65 min
May 10, 5:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDe Baca49 min
May 10, 5:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFChaves, Eddy60 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.