Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 283, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 24, 1995, 8:27 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 24, 1995, 8:27 PM MDT (02:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 24, 1995, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 48 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 02:28 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, 2.5 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
- 443 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2257 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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, Sep 24, 5:33 PM MDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-250035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 633 PM CDT (533 PM MDT) SUN SEP 24 1995 AT 625 PM CDT (525 PM MDT)... AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM... WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL... WAS LOCATED 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF STERLING CITY... JUST ENTERING NORTHWESTERN COKE COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE LOCATED FROM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO... TO 15 MILES WEST OF JAL NEW MEXICO... TO NEAR FORT STOCKTON AND TO NEAR ALPINE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 8:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 46 min |
| Sep 24, 9:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 49 min |
| Sep 24, 10:05 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews | 25 min |
| Sep 24, 10:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 40 min |
| Sep 24, 10:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 30 min |
| Sep 24, 10:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 52 min |
| Sep 24, 11:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 52 min |
| Sep 24, 11:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 23 min |
| Sep 24, 7:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 53 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.