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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 5, 1995Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1995, 2:34 AM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 5, 1995, 2:34 AM MDT (08:34 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 1995, 3:30 AM MDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Lea County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 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.

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: 465 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -188 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1817 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 050838
SVRMAF
NMC025-050930-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
334 AM CDT (234 AM MDT) FRI MAY 5 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 AM MDT (430 AM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
 
   ...NORTHERN LEA COUNTY
 
AT 235 AM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO
NORTHWESTERN LEA COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN
HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO VICINITY OF MALJARMAR BY 250 AM MDT AND
CONTINUE TO TRACK ACROSS NORTHERN LEA COUNTY.
 
PEOPLE IN NORTHERN LEA COUNTY SHOULD PREPARE FOR WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER
COVERS THE ROAD.

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, May 4, 10:42 PM MDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before

NMZ027>029-TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-050545-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1142 PM CDT (1042 PM MDT) THU MAY 4 1995

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR
PEOPLE IN NORTHERN ECTOR...MIDLAND AND GLASSCOCK COUNTIES...
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FOR
PEOPLE IN HOWARD COUNTY...
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR
PARTS OF WEST TEXAS...

AT 1125 PM CDT...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH
VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE LOCATED IN AN AREA FROM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
COAHOMA...TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF SONORA...TO NEAR LONGFELLOW AND TO 15
MILES SOUTHWEST OF ANDREWS.

THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTH OF BIG SPRING AND 8
MILES NORTHEAST OF GOLDSMITH.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

AT 1131 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED QUARTER SIZED HAIL IN THE CITY
OF COAHOMA.

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 fHAS PASSED.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 4:44 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	61 min
May 5, 5:41 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	59 min
May 5, 7:08 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	67 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.