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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 248, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 27, 1995Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1995, 4:44 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 1995, 4:44 PM MDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 1995, 5:15 PM MDT
In force
31 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, 10.7 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 1995-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 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 1995-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 137 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-402 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1305 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
219 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 
WUUS1 KMAF 272244 RRA
SVRMAF
NMC015-272315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
544 PM CDT (444 PM MDT) TUE JUN 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CDT (515 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
 
   ...SOUTHERN EDDY COUNTY
 
AT 542 PM CDT (442 PM MDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 5 MILES NORTH OF WHITES CITY.
MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST 15 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL CROSS HIGHWAY
62...NEAR WHITES CITY.
 
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 27, 2:31 PM MDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-272135-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
331 PM CDT (231 PM MDT) TUE JUN 27 1995

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP OVER PARTS OF WEST
TEXAS...

AT 325 PM CDT (225 PM MDT)... A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN
WAS LOCATED 30 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF FORT STOCKTON.  MOVEMENT WAS
EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN... WERE LOCATED IN AN AREA FROM NEAR ALPINE... TO 10 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF SHAFTER... TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF SIERRA BLANCA AND TO 10
MILES NORTHWEST OF CARLSBAD.

THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ALPINE.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

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

AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING
SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.
TUNE IN 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 9:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFChaves58 min
Jun 26, 9:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea50 min
Jun 26, 11:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea40 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.