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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 15, 1995Loving County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1995, 5:45 PM CDT for Loving County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 15, 1995, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 1995, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Loving County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 131 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

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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, 5:35 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-160340-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
535 PM CDT (435 PM MDT) MON MAY 15 1995

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF WESTERN TEXAS
   AND EXTREME EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNTIL 1100 PM CDT (1000 PM MDT)...

AT 533 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY...LARGE HAIL AND
STRONG GUSTY WINDS WERE LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF JAL IN SOUTHERN LEA
COUNTY...NEAR LOVINGTON AND NORTH OF TATUM NEW MEXICO AND PLAINS
TEXAS ON THE TEXAS/NEW MEXICO BORDER.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED FROM CULBERSON COUNTY
TEXAS TO EDDY AND LEA COUNTIES OF NEW MEXICO AND INTO THE TEXAS
SOUTH PLAINS NORTH OF PLAINS AND LITTLEFIELD.

IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NEAREST NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE.

STAY ALERT FVOR RAPIDLY CHANGING LOCAL WEATHER AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA
WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATED INFORMATION.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWinkler67 min
May 15, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos63 min
May 15, 6:35 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFWinkler55 min
May 15, 2:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy55 min
May 15, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy61 min
May 15, 4:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea57 min
May 15, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea67 min
May 15, 4:58 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFLea62 min
May 15, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea58 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.