Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 306, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 2, 1995, 6:09 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 2, 1995, 6:09 PM MDT (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 2, 1995, 7:10 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Eddy County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1348 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 030010 RRA SVRMAF NMC015-030110- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 709 PM CDT (609 PM MDT) MON OCT 2 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 710 PM MDT (810 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...EDDY COUNTY AT 600 PM MDT (700 PM CDT)...MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF CARLSBAD. THIS STORM IS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD REACH CARLSBAD BY 645 PM MDT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAV2Y RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. $$ 01
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 2, 4:05 PM MDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
TXZ061-062-022240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 505 PM CDT MON OCT 2 1995 ...THE URBAN FLOOD ADVISORY FOR THE MIDLAND-ODESSA AREA HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 500 PM CDT...MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD PASSED THE MIDLAND-ODESSA AREA. THERE HAD BEEN NO REPORTS OF STREET FLOODING IN THE MIDLAND-ODESSA AREA SINCE THE PASSAGE OF THIS PRECIPITATION. THEREFORE...THE URBAN FLOOD ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Special weather statement, Oct 2, 4:07 PM MDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
TXZ061-062-022240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 505 PM CDT MON OCT 2 1995 ...THE URBAN FLOOD ADVISORY FOR THE MIDLAND-ODESSA AREA HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 500 PM CDT...MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD PASSED THE MIDLAND-ODESSA AREA. THERE HAD BEEN NO REPORTS OF STREET FLOODING IN THE MIDLAND-ODESSA AREA SINCE THE PASSAGE OF THIS PRECIPITATION. THEREFORE...THE URBAN FLOOD ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Special weather statement, Oct 2, 4:30 PM MDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-022330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 528 PM CDT (428 PM MDT) MON OCT 2 1995 AT 525 PM CDT (420 PM MDT)...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL...WERE LOCATED 20 MILES NORTH OF MARATHON TO 20 MILES EAST OF ALPINE. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS SHOULD CROSS MARATHON AND HIGHWAY 385 BY AROUND 545 PM CDT. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED NORTHEAST FROM THIS AREA THROUGH MONAHANS TO JUST SOUTH OF MIDLAND. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOVINGTON. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALSO EXTENDED ACROSS THE EDWARDS PLATEAU FROM 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OZONA TO NORTHEAST OF SAN ANGELO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. BECAUSE OF THE HEAVY RAIN THAT OCCURRED...RESIDENTS IN THE PECOS RIVER VALLEY AREA SHOULD USE CAUTION WHILE TRAVELING TONIGHT...AS SOME SECONDARY ROADS AND LOW-LYING AREAS MAY BE COVERED BY WATER.
Local storm report, Oct 2, 5:06 PM MDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
606 PM CDT (506 PM MDT) MON OCT 2 1995
TIME CITY LOCATION STATE TYPE OF EVENT
DATE COUNTY LOCATION FATALITIES/INJURIES/REMARKS
0200 PM JAL NM LOCAL POLICE DEPT REPORTED
10/02/95 LEA 0.75 INCH HAIL
0230 PM 25 SW ANDREWS TX SHERIFF OFFICE REPORTED
10/02/95 ANDREWS 0.75 INCH HAIL ON HIGHWAY
115 NEAR COUNTY LINE
0255 PM GOLDSMITH TX PUBLIC REPORTED A SHED
10/02/95 ECTOR DESTROYED
0314 PM WEST ODESSA TX PUBLIC REPORTED 0.75
10/02/95 ECTOR INCH HAIL
0355 PM 3 W PECOS TX LOCAL RADIO STATION
10/02/95 REEVES REPORTED 0.75 INCH HAILSpecial weather statement, Oct 2, 5:38 PM MDT, 31 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-030040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 637 PM CDT (537 PM MDT) MON OCT 2 1995 AT 625 PM CDT (525 PM MDT)...MIDLAND DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF MODERATE TO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF MCCAMEY TO 10 MILES EAST OF FORT STOCKTON TO 15 MILES WEST OF SANDERSON TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARATHON. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF SANDERSON NEAR HIGHWAY 90 AND 20 MILES SOUTH OF MARATHON NEAR HIGHWAY 385. ANOTHER LINE OF MODERATE TO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED NEARLY EAST-WEST FROM JUST SOUTH OF SONORA TO JUST SOUTH OF SANDERSON. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Oct 2, 5:49 PM MDT, 20 minutes before
NMZ028-029-030050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 648 PM CDT (548 PM MDT) MON OCT 2 1995 AT 645 PM CDT (545 PM MDT)...MIDLAND DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO...NEAR LOCO HILLS ALONG HIGHWAY 82. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR...AND SHOULD BE IN THE CARLSBAD AREA BY 645 PM MDT. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING MAY STRIKE SOME MILES AWAY FROM THE PARENT CLOUD. PRECAUTIONS SHOULD BE TAKEN EVEN THOUGH THE THUNDERSTORM IS NOT DIRECTLY OVERHEAD. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
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.