Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 248, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 9:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 58 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 |
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.