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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 15, 1995Eddy County, New Mexico

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 981 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 262 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 3:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy61 min
May 15, 3:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea57 min
May 15, 3:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea67 min
May 15, 3:58 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFLea62 min
May 15, 5:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea58 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.