Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1995, 3:33 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1995, 3:33 PM MDT (21:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1995, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lea County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 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
- 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 152133 SVRMAF NMC025-152230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 433 PM CDT (333 PM MDT) MON MAY 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT (430 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...NORTHERN LEA COUNTY AT 431 PM CDT(331 PM MDT)...RADAR INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF TATUM NEW MEXICO. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, 5 hours 19 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, 1:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 55 min |
| May 15, 3:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 61 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
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.