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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 21, 1995Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1995, 3:36 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 21, 1995, 3:36 PM MDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1995, 4:30 PM MDT
In force
54 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, 9.6 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 1995-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 113 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 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
113 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-240 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1338 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KMAF 212137 RRA
SVRMAF
NMC015-212230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
436 PM CDT (336 PM MDT) WED JUN 21 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM CDT (430 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
 
   ...WESTERN EDDY COUNTY
 
AT 333 PM MDT (433 PM CDT)...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO
EXTREME WESTERN EDDY COUNTY 15 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF HOPE. THIS STORM
HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING OF GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL 330 PM MDT IN EASTERN
CHAVES COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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, Jun 21, 10:22 AM MDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-220500-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1122 AM CDT (1022 AM MDT) WED JUN 21 1995

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS:

ANDREWS   DAWSON    GLASSCOCK  MARTIN    REEVES   WARD
BORDEN    ECTOR     HOWARD     MIDLAND   TERRELL  WINKLER
CRANE     GAINES    LOVING     PECOS     UPTON

AND IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO:

EDDY      LEA

SYNOPSIS: DAYTIME HEATING IS EXPECTED TO INITIATE WIDELY SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AN AXIS OF INSTABILITY ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA
LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
EXPECTED.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

MURDOCH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 6:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy51 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.