Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 258, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1995, 11:00 PM MDT for Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1995, 11:00 PM MDT (05:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1995, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:02 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 173 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, 8:01 PM MDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
NMZ029-300305- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 901 PM CDT (801 PM MDT) THU JUN 29 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL LEA COUNTY PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT HAS EXPIRED... AT 8 PM MDT (9 PM CDT)...THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL LEA COUNTY WAS LOCATED IN THE VICINITY OF LOVINGTON NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED TO THE POINT THAT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS NO LONGER REQUIRED FOR LEA COUNTY. THIS STORM IS STILL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 9:00 PM MDT, 2 hours before
NMZ028-300335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1000 PM CDT (900 PM MDT) THU JUN 29 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN EDDY COUNTY PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT HAS EXPIRED... AT 9 PM MDT (10 PM CDT)...THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN EDDY COUNTY WAS LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF WHITES CITY. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED TO THE POINT THAT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS NO LONGER REQUIRED FOR LEA COUNTY. THIS STORM IS STILL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. JACKSON
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 9:45 PM MDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-300450- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1045 PM CDT (945 PM MDT) THU JUN 29 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN AND WESTERN EDDY COUNTY NEW MEXICO... AT 1025 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR OVER PARTS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS. THE AREA EXTENDED FROM 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DELL CITY NEW MEXICO TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF ARTESIA NEW MEXICO. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MILES AN HOUR. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST 25 MILES AN HOUR. A BROKEN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS...SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY HAIL...EXTENDED FROM 10 MILES EAST OF STERLING CITY TEXAS TO 10 MILES EAST OF BALLINGER TEXAS. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES EAST OF BALLINGER. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH 15 MILES AN HOUR. RAINSHOWERS EXTENDED FROM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALPINE TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT DAVIS TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST 10 MILES AN HOUR.
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, 6:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 59 min |
| 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 |
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.