Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 22, 1995Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1995, 5:35 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 1995, 5:35 PM MDT (23:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1995, 6:15 PM MDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Lea County, NM

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 147 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

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 8:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves43 min
Jun 21, 9:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving26 min
Jun 22, 12:03 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy57 min
Jun 22, 4:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFChaves27 min
Jun 22, 4:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy38 min
Jun 22, 5:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy40 min
Jun 22, 5:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy41 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.