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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 256, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 29, 1995Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1995, 7:49 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 71 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 1995, 7:49 PM MDT (01:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1995, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
71 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Eddy County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1953 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KMAF 300150 RRA
SVRMAF
NMC015-300300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
849 PM CDT (749 PM MDT) THU JUN 29 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT (900 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
 
   ...SOUTHERN EDDY COUNTY
 
AT 747 PM MDT...DOPPLAR RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES
NORTHWEST OF WHITES CITY. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN
HOUR. THIS STORM WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 62/180 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WHITES
CITY BY 845 PM MDT.
 
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 29, 3:34 PM MDT, 4 hours 15 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, 6:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea59 min
Jun 29, 9:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy71 min
Jun 29, 11:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy, Lea60 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.