Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 262, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1995, 7:36 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 1995, 7:36 PM MDT (01:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1995, 8:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 69 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, 1.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 758 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 030137 RRA SVRMAF NMC025-030245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 836 PM CDT (736 PM MDT) SUN JUL 2 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT (845 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY AT 735 PM MDT (835 PM CDT)...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 23 MILES WEST OF JAL NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH JAL NEW MEXICO BY 815 PM MDT. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY W|INDOWS. 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, Jul 2, 3:41 PM MDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-022245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 441 PM CDT (341 PM MDT) SUN JUL 2 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... AT 430 PM CDT (330 PM MDT)...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED ALONG A LINE FROM 5 SOUTHEAST OF GARDEN CITY TO 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF ASPERMONT. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL WERE GENERALLY CONFINED WITHIN A FORT DAVIS-FORT STOCKTON-PECOS TRIANGLE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED 28 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT STOCKTON. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... EXTENDED FROM 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VAN HORN TEXAS TO CAPROCK NEW MEXICO. THE STORM WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF ARTESIA NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 3:46 PM MDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-022245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 441 PM CDT (341 PM MDT) SUN JUL 2 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... AT 430 PM CDT (330 PM MDT)...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED ALONG A LINE FROM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GARDEN CITY TO 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF ASPERMONT. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL WERE GENERALLY CONFINED WITHIN A FORT DAVIS-FORT STOCKTON-PECOS TRIANGLE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED 28 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT STOCKTON. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... EXTENDED FROM 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VAN HORN TEXAS TO CAPROCK NEW MEXICO. THE STORM WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF ARTESIA NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 4:46 PM MDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-022345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 546 PM CDT (446 PM MDT) SUN JUL 2 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MITCHELL COUNTY UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... AT 530 PM CDT (430 PM MDT)...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL WAS LOCATED 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL REACH THE CITY OF HOBBS NEW MEXICO AROUND 5 PM MDT. ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM THE CITY OF PECOS TO 25 MILES EAST OF PANDALE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS HAD BEEN SLOWLY WEAKENING IN THE PAST HOUR. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL WERE SCATTERED FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF STERLING CITY TO NORTHEAST OF ROBY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROSCOE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 5:36 PM MDT, 2 hours before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-030035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 635 PM CDT (535 PM MDT) SUN JUL 2 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS RUMBLED INTO LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO... AT 625 PM CDT (525 PM MDT)...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOBBS NEW MEXICO...AND MIDWAY BETWEEN CARLSBAD AND ROSWELL ON THE EDDY COUNTY LINE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM EAST OF ROBY TO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STERLING CITY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MARYNEAL. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSHOWERS WERE ALSO WIDELY SCATTERED FROM 20 MILES EAST OF EL PASO TO EAST OF PANDALE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...BE PREPARED TO MOVE INDOORS IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 6:38 PM MDT, 58 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-030135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 737 PM CDT (637 PM MDT) SUN JUL 2 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD ENTERED TEXAS FROM SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... AT 725 PM CDT (625 PM MDT)...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL...EXTENDED FROM SEMINOLE TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF EUNICE. OTHER STORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM JUST WEST OF TATUM NEW MEXICO TO THE RIO GRANDE WEST OF SIERRA BLANCA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM 10 MILES EAST OF GARDEN CITY TO BALLINGER AND ABILENE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO WIDELY SCATTERED ACROSS THE REST OF THE WESTERN PERMIAN BASIN...SOUTH PLAINS...TRANS-PECOS...AND THE MOUNTAINS OF WEST TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. IF DRIVING IS NECESSARY THIS EVENING...BE ALERT TO CHANGING CONDITIONS IN YOUR AREA. IF THUNDERSTORMS ARE ENCOUNTERED WHILE DRIVING...SLOW DOWN...AND DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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.