Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1995, 12:58 PM MDT for Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 1995, 12:58 PM MDT (18:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1995, 1:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hudspeth County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
El Paso Intl Airport, TX (KELP), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3341 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 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 KELP 261858 SVRELP TXC229-261930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 1258 PM MDT FRI MAY 26 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS ...NORTHERN HUDSPETH COUNTY AT 1250 PM MDT (150 PM CDT) MIDLAND DOPPLAR RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTH CENTRAL HUDSPETH COUNTY NEAR THE CITY OF CORNUDAS. A SPOTTER IN CORNUDAS REPORTED MARBLE-SIZED HAIL. THIS CELL IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND SHOULD BE IN SOUTHERN OTERO COUNTY BY 130 PM MDT. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED @AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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
Special weather statement, May 26, 12:20 PM MDT, 38 minutes before
TXZ055-056-057-NMZ025-032-262215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 1218 PM MDT (118 PM CDT) FRI MAY 26 1995 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS FAR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO... AT 1210 PM MDT (110 PM CDT) THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ACROSS FAR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO. RADAR SHOWED STRONG CELLS 20 MIL EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF EL PASO MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THUDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO CONITINUE TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING IN THE EL PASO AREA AND THROUGHOUT FAR WEST TEXAS. IF YOU ARE OUT AND ABOUT IN FAR WEST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 1:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Culberson | 26 min |
| May 26, 2:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Jeff Davis | 47 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.