Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 296, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 2, 1995, 3:00 AM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 2, 1995, 3:00 AM MDT (09:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 2, 1995, 3:30 AM MDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Eddy County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 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
- 1059 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1710 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 020901 RRA SVRMAF NMC015-020930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 400 AM CDT (300 AM MDT) MON OCT 2 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 AM CDT (330 AM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...SOUTHERN EDDY COUNTY AT 300 AM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED JUST NORTHEAST OF MALAGA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. 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.
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, Oct 1, 11:29 PM MDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-020630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1228 AM CDT (1128 PM MDT) MON OCT 2 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER WESTERN EDDY COUNTY... AT 1225 AM CDT (1125 PM MDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL...HAD DEVELOPED 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ARTESIA NEW MEXICO. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES WEST OF WHITES CITY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED OVER EXTREME NORTHERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY...ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF BALMORHEA. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY OVER THE EASTERN PART OF THE BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 11:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 44 min |
| Oct 2, 12:43 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 47 min |
| Oct 2, 1:29 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 46 min |
| Oct 2, 2:16 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 44 min |
| Oct 2, 3:21 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 39 min |
| Oct 2, 3:45 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 45 min |
| Oct 2, 4:01 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 44 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.