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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 11, 1994Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1994, 5:12 AM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 11, 1994, 5:12 AM MDT (11:12 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 1994, 6:15 AM MDT
In force
63 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, 11.2 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 17 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 187 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
635 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
187 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
301 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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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

Local storm report, May 11, 3:58 AM MDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
500 AM CDT WED MAY 11 1994

...REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS OCCURRING THE MORNING OF MAY 11
   1994...

TIME                          COUNTY           EVENT

1254 AM CDT                   MARTIN           SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
                              TXC317           1.75 INCH HAIL 2 MILES
                                               NORTHWEST OF STANTON.

1259 AM CDT                   MARTIN           1.00 INCH HAIL REORTED IN
                              TXC317           STANTON BY SPOTTER.

100 AM CDT                    MARTIN           1.75 INCH HAIL REPORTED BY
                              TXC317           PUBLIC AT HOSPITAL IN
                                               STANTON.

156 AM CDT                       HOWARD           SPOTTER REPORTED 0.75
                                 TXC227           INCH HAIL IN BIG SPRING.

203 AM CDT                       HOWARD           0.75 HAIL JUST WEST OF
                                 TXC227           BIG SPRING REPORTED BY
                                                  SPOTTER.

330-338 AM CDT                   HOWARD           SPOTTER RExPORTED TORNADO
                                 TXC227           ON GROUND 5 MILES
                                                  SOUTHEAST OF COAHOMA.
Local storm report, May 11, 4:00 AM MDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
500 AM CDT WED MAY 11 1994

...REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS OCCURRING THE MORNING OF MAY 11
   1994...

TIME                          COUNTY           EVENT

1254 AM CDT                   MARTIN           SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
                              TXC317           1.75 INCH HAIL 2 MILES
                                               NORTHWEST OF STANTON.

1259 AM CDT                   MARTIN           1.00 INCH HAIL REORTED IN
                              TXC317           STANTON BY SPOTTER.

100 AM CDT                    MARTIN           1.75 INCH HAIL REPORTED BY
                              TXC317           PUBLIC AT HOSPITAL IN
                                               STANTON.

156 AM CDT                       HOWARD           SPOTTER REPORTED 0.75
                                 TXC227           INCH HAIL IN BIG SPRING.

203 AM CDT                       HOWARD           0.75 HAIL JUST WEST OF
                                 TXC227           BIG SPRING REPORTED BY
                                                  SPOTTER.

330-338 AM CDT                   HOWARD           SPOTTER REPORTED TORNADO
                                 TXC227           ON GROUND 5 MILES
                                                  SOUTHEAST OF COAHOMA.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 6:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving, Reeves45 min
May 10, 8:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews, Winkler66 min
May 10, 9:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor62 min
May 10, 10:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews55 min
May 10, 11:05 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFMartin, Midland40 min
May 10, 11:42 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFMartin48 min
May 11, 12:20 AM MDTTornado WarningMAFHoward40 min
May 11, 12:59 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward61 min
May 11, 1:14 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFHoward3 hr
May 11, 2:08 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFHoward3 hr
May 11, 2:08 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward91 min
May 11, 2:29 AM MDTTornado WarningMAFHoward46 min
May 11, 2:07 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFEctor68 min
May 11, 3:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland60 min
May 11, 3:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland70 min
May 11, 4:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Ward62 min
May 11, 4:20 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFMidland115 min
May 11, 4:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin65 min
May 11, 4:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWinkler69 min
May 11, 5:55 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFCrane2 hr
May 10, 6:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFChaves50 min
May 10, 7:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy52 min
May 10, 8:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea64 min
May 11, 4:41 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFChaves64 min
May 11, 6:53 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLea4 hr
May 11, 7:13 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea62 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.