Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1995, 5:02 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1995, 5:02 PM MDT (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1995, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 58 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, 11.0 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 152302 SVRMAF NMC025-160000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 602 PM CDT (502 PM MDT) MON MAY 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT (600 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY AT 5 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR IN SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO IN THE VICINITY OF JAL. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WAS EAST AT 25 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.
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, 4:35 PM MDT, 27 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.
| 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, 3:33 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 |
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.