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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 30, 1995Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1995, 5:57 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 30, 1995, 5:57 PM MDT (23:57 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1995, 7:00 PM 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 12:00Z, 12.0 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 311 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
536 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
311 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
480 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 302358
SVRMAF
NMC015-310100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
657 PM CDT (557 PM MDT) TUE MAY 30 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CDT (700 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
 
   ...NORTHERN EDDY COUNTY
 
AT 655 PM CDT (555 PM MDT)...RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF ARTESIA NEW MEXICO.
 
AT ITS PRESENT MOVEMENT OF EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR THIS STORM
WILL BE OVER THE COMMUNITY ESPUELA BY 615 PM MDT.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 3:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy61 min
May 30, 4:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy67 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.