Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1995, 1:35 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1995, 1:35 PM MDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1995, 2:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 55 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, 7.6 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
- 981 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -405 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1550 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 151937 SVRMAF NMC015-152030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 235 PM CDT (135 PM MDT) MON MAY 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT (230 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...EDDY COUNTY AT 135 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN 10 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF WHITES CITY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO THE VICINITY OF WHITES CITY WITHIN THE NEXT 15 MINUTES. THIS STORM IS LIKELY PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND VERY STRONG WINDS. PERSONS IN EDDY COUNTY SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...FREQUENT 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, May 15, 10:14 AM MDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-160500- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1115 AM CDT (1015 AM MDT) MON MAY 15 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS: ANDREWS DAWSON GLASSCOCK MARTIN REEVES WARD BORDEN ECTOR HOWARD MIDLAND TERRELL WINKLER CRANE GAINES LOVING PECOS UPTON AND IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO: EDDY LEA SYNOPSIS: AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE OVER PARTS OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. WITH DAYTIME HEATING... ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FROM THE PERMIAN BASIN NORTHWARD... INCLUDING EXTREME SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. THE MAIN LTHREAT FROM THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. EARLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 3:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 61 min |
| May 15, 3:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 57 min |
| May 15, 3:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 67 min |
| May 15, 3:58 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 62 min |
| May 15, 5:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 58 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.