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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 11, 1994Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1994, 6:49 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 11, 1994, 6:49 PM MDT (00:49 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 1994, 7:45 PM MDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Lea County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 147 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 1994-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 453 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 1994-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 242 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
453 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-222 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
997 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
242 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
272 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.9

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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 11, 6:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward58 min
May 11, 6:17 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFHoward118 min
May 11, 6:23 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos3 hr
May 11, 6:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton68 min
May 11, 7:46 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFUpton3 hr
May 11, 8:14 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFGlasscock3 hr
May 12, 11:51 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFAndrews, Gaines3 hr
May 12, 12:18 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFEctor57 min
May 12, 12:49 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFCrane, Pecos56 min
May 12, 1:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor62 min
May 12, 2:03 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos117 min
May 12, 2:03 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFUpton117 min
May 12, 2:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines59 min
May 12, 2:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor65 min
May 12, 3:52 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFMidland59 min
May 12, 4:05 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos3 hr
May 12, 4:05 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFUpton3 hr
May 12, 4:39 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFMartin2 hr
May 12, 5:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden, Howard62 min
May 11, 7:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea55 min
May 12, 8:45 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLea5 hr
May 12, 11:30 AM MDTTornado WarningMAFEddy45 min
May 12, 1:25 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLea5 hr

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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.