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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 249, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 28, 1995Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1995, 1:31 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 1995, 1:31 PM MDT (19:31 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 1995, 2:30 PM MDT
In force: 59 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, 7.5 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-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: 531 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -188 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1901 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 18 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 281931 RRA
SVRMAF
NMC015-282030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
231 PM CDT (131 PM MDT) WED JUN 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM CDT (230 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
 
   ...SOUTHERN EDDY COUNTY
 
AT 130 PM MDT (230 PM CDT)...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12
MILES NORTHWEST OF WHITES CITY.
 
MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT LESS THAN 10 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 28, 10:07 AM MDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before

TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-290500-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1107 AM CDT (1007 AM MDT) WED JUN 28 1995

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS:

ANDREWS   DAWSON    GLASSCOCK  MARTIN    REEVES   WARD
BORDEN    ECTOR     HOWARD     MIDLAND   TERRELL  WINKLER
CRANE     GAINES    LOVING     PECOS     UPTON

AND IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO:

EDDY      LEA

SYNOPSIS:  ADEQUATE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND WEAK UPPER LEVEL
DISTURBANCES IN THE FLOW ALOFT WILL PROVIDE ENOUGH INSTABILITY FOR
LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT...
SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS.  THE MAIN THREAT OF
SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE MAINLY LARGE HAIL.

THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DEVELOP FIRST IN THE MOUNTAINS OF WEST TEXAS
AND NEW MEXICO AND MOVE SOUTHEAST.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

EARLE

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.