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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 29, 1995Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1995, 5:41 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 1995, 5:41 PM MDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1995, 6:45 PM MDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Lea County, NM

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 965 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 1995-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
965 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-195 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1247 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KMAF 292341 RRA
SVRMAF
NMC025-300045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
641 PM CDT (541 PM MDT) THU JUN 29 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM CDT (645 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
 
   ...WEST CENTRAL LEA COUNTY
 
AT 540 PM MDT (640 PM CDT)...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 33 MILES WEST OF HOBBS NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS
NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  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, Jun 29, 3:34 PM MDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-292240-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
434 PM CDT (334 PM MDT) THU JUN 29 1995

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE DEVELOPING IN SOUTHEAST
   NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

AT 425 PM CDT (325 PM MDT)...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH
VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED IN AN AREA EXTENDING FROM CARLSBAD NEW
MEXICO TO 15 MILES EAST OF MALAGA NEW MEXICO. OTHER SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE WIDELY SCATTERED
FROM 18 MILES SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON TO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
MARATHON. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.

THROUGH 530 PM CDT (430 PM MDT)...FURTHER INTENSIFICATION OF THESE
THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED. SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE
POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. SOME STORMS...PARTICULARLY IN
SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...MAY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS.

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

JACKSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 3:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy56 min
Jun 29, 4:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy62 min
Jun 29, 5:02 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFEddy58 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.