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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 26, 1995Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1995, 2:51 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 69 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 1995, 2:51 PM MDT (20:51 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1995, 4:00 PM MDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Lea County, NM

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 26, 2:51 PM MDT	Tornado F1	Lea, NM	Reported by sheriff's office and public along U.S. Highway 82 between Malajmar and Lovington.
May 26, 2:51 PM MDT	Tornado F1	Lea, NM	Reported by sheriff's office and public along U.S. Highway 82 between Malajmar and Lovington.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 978 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 560 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 275 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 5.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 262051
TORMAF
NMC025-262200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
351 PM CDT (251 PM MDT) FRI MAY 26 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM CDT (400 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
 
   ...LEA COUNTY
 
AT 351 PM CDT (251 PM MDT)...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 10 MILES EAST OF
MALJAMAR. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOORB.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
 
 
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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 26, 10:30 AM MDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before

TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-270500-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1130 AM CDT (1030 AM MDT) FRI MAY 26 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: THE COMBINATION OF A MOIST UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE AND
STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHING THE FORECAST AREA THIS
AFTERNOON WILL LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS. RESIDENTS OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
SHOULD KEPEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED.

MURDOCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 7:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	64 min
May 25, 8:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	58 min
May 26, 12:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	65 min
May 26, 1:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	55 min
May 26, 2:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	62 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in New Mexico, 1995 Every tornado warning in 1995 Tornadoes 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.