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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 20, 1994Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 1994, 6:10 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 20, 1994, 6:10 PM MDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired
May 20, 1994, 6:45 PM MDT
In force
35 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, 0.2 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 1994-05-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 74 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 1994-05-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 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
74 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-181 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2411 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
157 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 20, 7:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDe Baca70 min
May 20, 7:43 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFEddy62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

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.