Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 231, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1995, 4:55 AM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 1995, 4:55 AM MDT (10:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1995, 6:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 65 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 10:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 706 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1982 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMAF 251056 RRA SVRMAF NMC025-251200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 555 AM CDT (455 AM MDT) SUN JUN 25 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 AM CDT (600 AM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY AT 452 AM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF OIL CENTER MOVING SOUTHEAST 20 MILES AN HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 25, 2:42 AM MDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-250945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 342 AM CDT (242 AM MDT) SUN JUN 25 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTH LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO... AT 325 AM CDT(225 AM MDT)...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN THE VICINITY OF CAPROCK NEW MEXICO OF NORTHWEST LEA COUNTY. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED NORTHWEST OF CAPROCK IN CHAVES COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 3:35 AM MDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-251040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 435 AM CDT (335 AM MDT) SUN JUN 25 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH NORTH LEA COUNTY... AT 425 AM CDT(325 AM MDT)...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL WAS LOCATED IN NORTHWEST LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO...JUST WEST OF MCDONALD. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF LOVINGTON...JUST EAST OF MALJAMAR...AND NORTHWEST OF CAPROCK IN CHAVES COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 4:36 AM MDT, 19 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-251140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 536 AM CDT (436 AM MDT) SUN JUN 25 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EAST LEA COUNTY... AT 525 AM CDT(425AM MDT)...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL EXTENDED SOUTH FROM...JUST WEST OF NEW MEXICO/TEXAS STATE LINE. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO ANDREWS AND GAINES COUNTIES BY 540 AM CDT. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER STORMS WERE LOCATED IN LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO WEST OF HUMBLE CITY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED EAST OF EUNICE AND SOUTHEAST OF NADINE. IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.