Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 254, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1995, 6:46 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1995, 6:46 PM MDT (00:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1995, 7:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 59 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 00:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1953 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1742 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 3 hours 12 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 6:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 43 min |
| Jun 29, 11:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving, Reeves | 62 min |
| Jun 30, 12:50 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves, Ward | 55 min |
| Jun 30, 2:22 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ward | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 7:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 71 min |
| Jun 29, 9:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 71 min |
| Jun 29, 11:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 60 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.