Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 274, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1995, 5:31 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 1995, 5:31 PM MDT (23:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1995, 6:35 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Eddy County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1197 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 172332 RRA SVRMAF NMC015-180035- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 631 PM CDT (531 PM MDT) THU AUG 17 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 635 PM MDT (735 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWESTERN EDDY COUNTY AT 529 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR 24 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF CARLSBAD OR 10 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF FOUR WELLS MOVING WEST NORTHWEST AT 23 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS SOUTH OF HOPE NEW MEXICO THROUGH 635 PM MDT. 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. $$ JACKSON
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, Aug 17, 1:40 PM MDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-172045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 239 PM CDT (139 PM MDT) THU AUG 17 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS... AT 227 PM CDT (127 PM MDT)...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL WERE SCATTERED FROM 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF VAN HORN TO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT DAVIS. THIS AREA OF PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM PRESIDIO TEXAS...UP THROUGH THE DAVIS AND GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS INTO NEW MEXICO 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF ARTESIA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS TRAVELING THROUGH THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS OF TEXAS...AND INTERSTATE 10 JUST WEST OF KENT...SHOULD BE ALERT TO REDUCED VISIBILITIES DUE TO LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT DRIVE WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Aug 17, 2:39 PM MDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-172140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 338 PM CDT (238 PM MDT) THU AUG 17 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS THE TRANS-PECOS... AT 325 PM CDT (225 PM MDT)...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL WERE LOCATED 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF VAN HORN. ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM THE RIO GRANDE AT PRESIDIO...THROUGH THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS AND SALT FLATS OF TEXAS...INTO THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF NEW MEXICO 30 MILES WEST OF ROSWELL. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH-NORTHWEST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL STAY IN AND AROUND THE MOUNTAIN AREAS UNTIL AROUND SUNSET...WHEN THEY SHOULD DISSIPATE. PERSONS IN THESE MENTIONED AREAS CAN EXPECT BRIEF...HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING TO ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT TO REDUCED VISIBILITIES AROUND STORMS DUE TO HEAVY RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Aug 17, 4:39 PM MDT, 52 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-172345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 539 PM CDT (439 PM MDT) THU AUG 17 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER PARTS OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... AT 525 PM CDT (425 PM MDT)...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL...WERE OVER PARTS OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. THE AREA EXTENDED FROM NORTHWEST OF TATUM NEW MEXICO TO SOUTH OF MARFA TEXAS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO AND NORTHWEST OF FORT DAVIS TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH 15 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
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.