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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 22, 1995Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1995, 4:37 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 1995, 4:37 PM MDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1995, 5:15 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, 10.6 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 1995-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 13 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 1995-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 89 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
13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-392 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1625 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 222239 RRA
SVRMAF
NMC015-222315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
537 PM CDT (437 PM MDT) THU JUN 22 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM MDT (615 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
 
   ...NORTHERN EDDY COUNTY
 
AT 437 PM MDT (537 PM CDT)...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF ARTESIA ALONG THE EDDY CHAVES
COUNTY LINE. THIS STORMS WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 1O MILES AN HOUR.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND vVERY 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
Jun 22, 12:03 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy57 min
Jun 22, 4:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFChaves27 min
Jun 22, 5:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy40 min
Jun 22, 5:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea40 min
Jun 22, 5:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy41 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.