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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 240, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 26, 1995Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1995, 9:17 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 1995, 9:17 PM MDT (03:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 1995, 10:15 PM MDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Chaves County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 264 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1795 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1447 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 228 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 9.4

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The text

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

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 26, 3:30 PM MDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 4:33 PM MDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before

TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-262340-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
533 PM CDT (433 PM MDT) MON JUN 26 1995

AT 525 PM CDT (425 PM MDT)...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY
AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL...WERE SCATTERED ACROSS FAR WEST
TEXAS...FROM THE RIO GRANDE RIVER...SOUTH OF SIERRA BLANCA...TO JUST
SOUTH OF MARFA...AND TO 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF SANDERSON. THE
STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALPINE.  MOVEMENT
OF THESE STORMS WAS EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

DOPPLER RADAR HAD ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE INCH IN
PARTS OF SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY. BE ALERT NEAR LOW-LYING AREAS AND
LOW-WATER CROSSINGS ALONG ROADWAYS FOR POSSIBLE LOCALIZED FLOODING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION
FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

Special weather statement, Jun 26, 5:37 PM MDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before

TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-270040-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
637 PM CDT (537 PM MDT) MON JUN 26 1995

...HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES IN PARTS OF FAR SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

AT 625 PM CDT (525 PM MDT)...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL...EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST OF DEL
CITY...TO SIERRA BLANCA...AND ALSO FROM 20 MILES SOUTH OF MARFA...TO
35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT STOCKTON.  THE STRONGEST STORM WAS
LOCATED 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALPINE.  THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST
SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL AMOUNT OF OVER AN INCH EXTENDING
FROM 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALPINE TO EXTREME SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY.

BECAUSE THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS AREA ARE REPEATEDLY MOVING OVER THE
SAME AREA...LOCAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO A FEW INCHES ARE
POSSIBLE.  IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND AND
CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR
THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

Special weather statement, Jun 26, 6:32 PM MDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-270135-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
732 PM CDT (632 PM MDT) MON JUN 26 1995

AT 725 PM CDT....VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...EXTENDED FROM JUST
NORTH OF SANDERSON TO THE RIO GRANDE RIVER...IN EASTERN BREWSTER
COUNTY.  MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 45 MILES
NORTHWEST OF GUADALUPE NATIONAL PARK...TO THE RIO GRANDE
RIVER...SOUTH OF VAN HORN .  MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN
HOUR.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND
SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION
FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

Special weather statement, Jun 26, 8:42 PM MDT, 35 minutes before

TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-270345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
942 PM CDT (842 PM MDT) MON JUN 26 1995

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG...GUSTY WINDS WERE APPROACHING THE
PERMIAN BASIN...

AT 935 PM CDT (835 PM MDT)...A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDED FROM ROSWELL NEW MEXICO SOUTHWARD TO THE BIG BEND NATIONAL
PARK OF TEXAS.  THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 30 MILES WEST
NORTHWEST OF THE CITY OF PECOS.  THIS PRECIPITATION SHOULD REACH THE
COMMUNITIES OF PECOS AND MENTONE BY AROUND 1000 PM CDT.  THESE
STORMS HAVE PRODUCED WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 50 MPH.

ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG THE RIO GRANDE
RIVER...SOUTHEAST OF SANDERSON.

MOVEMENT OF ALL PRECIPITATION WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND
SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION
FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 11:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	63 min
Jun 26, 11:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	69 min
Jun 27, 12:07 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	68 min
Jun 27, 12:24 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	66 min
Jun 27, 3:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	51 min
Jun 26, 9:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	50 min
Jun 26, 11:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	40 min
Jun 27, 4:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	31 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.