Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 24, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 1994, 2:52 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 6, 1994, 2:52 PM MDT (20:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 1994, 3:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Eddy County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1333 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KROW 062052
TORROW
NMC015-062130-
BULLETIN...EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROSWELL NM
252 PM MDT TUE SEP 6 1994
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROSWELL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE...
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXCIO...
EASTERN EDDY COUNTY
AT 250 PM MDT A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND 3 MILES NORTH OF
THE POTASH MINES OR 17 MILES EAST OF CARLSBAD. THIS TORNADO WAS
REPORTED TO BE MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER OR A
CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE
HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR STORM DAMAGE CALL YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCE-
MENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NEAREST NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 1:46 PM MDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
TXZ045-050-059-060-NMZ029-062045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 246 PM CDT (146 PM MDT) TUE SEP 6 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY DEVELOPED ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... AT 225 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EDDY AND EAST CENTRAL LEA COUNTIES OF NEW MEXICO. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR MALJAMAR IN LEA COUNTY AND NORTHEAST OF LAKE MCMILLAN IN EDDY COUNTY NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR. OTHERWISE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM WEST OF ABILENE TO THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 2:41 PM MDT, 11 minutes before
TXZ045-050-059-NMZ029-062140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 341 PM CDT (241 PM MDT) TUE SEP 6 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... AT 325 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE GUSTY WINDS...WERE LOCATED OVER PARTS OF EDDY AND LEA COUNTIES OF NEW MEXICO. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED JUST NORTH OF CARLSBAD OF EDDY COUNTY AND NEAR HUMBLE CITY OF LEA COUNTY. THIS AREA OF STORMS IS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE. OTHERWISE...SHOWERS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM NEAR ABILENE...TO NORTHEAST OF MIDLAND...ALSO A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN JEFF DAVIS AND PRESIDO COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR. AREA RESIDENTS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS AND IF HEAVY RAINS OR FLOODING ARE OBSERVED...BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
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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.