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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 15, 1995Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 15, 1995, 3:58 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 15, 1995, 3:58 PM MDT (21:58 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 1995, 5:00 PM MDT
In force
62 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, 10.0 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.

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 152158
TORMAF
NMC025-152300-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
458 PM CDT (358 PM MDT) MON MAY 15 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CDT (500 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
 
   ...SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY
 
AT 451 PM CDT(351 PM MDT)...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN
SOUTHWESTERN LEA COUNTY... ABOUT 25 MILES WEST OF JAL NEW MEXICO. THIS
STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 1:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy55 min
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, 5:02 PM MDTSevere 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.