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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 132, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 30, 1995Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1995, 8:01 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 30, 1995, 8:01 PM MDT (02:01 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1995, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Lea County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 314 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 589 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 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
589 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.0

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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 31, 2:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos66 min
May 31, 3:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson28 min
May 31, 4:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward39 min
May 31, 4:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin67 min
May 31, 4:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden42 min
May 31, 4:31 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFBorden59 min
May 30, 6:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy49 min
May 30, 7:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea63 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.