Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1996, 11:07 PM MDT for Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report 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 29, 1996, 11:07 PM MDT (05:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1996, 11:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 11:59 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Tatum, NM |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 1926 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1987 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 12.9
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 29, 7:58 PM MDT, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 7:58 PM MDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 858 PM CDT WED MAY 29 1996 HAVING TONS OF SEVERE WEATHER AROUND THE TX PORTION OF THE CWA. WV SATL SHOWING DIFFLUENT FLOW ALOFT HELPING OUR STORMS TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS. THESE STORMS ARE FIRING ALONG THE DRYLINE..AND EXTD FROM FROM S PLAINS/PERMIAN BASIN INTO MEXICO. LATEST ADAP SHOWS WEAKEST CAP EXTDG FROM CONCHO VALLEY NW TO S/PLAINS. LOW LEVEL DEWPOINTS FOR MAF E/WARD STILL IN THE 60S. HAVE NUMEROUS BOUNDARIES LURKING AROUND THE RDA WITH THE PSBLTY OF MORE SVR WX FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. SEE NO OTHER PRESSING MATTERS FOR DRASTIC CHANGES OVERNITE PACKAGE.. BOYD
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 29, 8:56 PM MDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
NMZ029-300400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 956 PM CDT (856 PM MDT) WED MAY 29 1996 BECAUSE THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT HAD MOVED FARTHER EAST OUT OF NEW MEXICO...LEA COUNNTY NEW MEXICO HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 492. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 6:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 64 min |
| May 29, 6:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 62 min |
| May 29, 6:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines, Martin | 62 min |
| May 29, 6:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 64 min |
| May 29, 6:38 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 47 min |
| May 29, 7:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 62 min |
| May 29, 7:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 62 min |
| May 29, 7:37 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 3 hr |
| May 29, 7:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 62 min |
| May 29, 8:35 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 45 min |
| May 29, 8:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 45 min |
| May 29, 10:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson, Gaines | 32 min |
| May 30, 2:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 63 min |
| May 30, 3:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 64 min |
| May 30, 3:51 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 34 min |
| May 30, 4:22 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 33 min |
| May 30, 4:54 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 31 min |
| May 30, 5:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 50 min |
| May 30, 5:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 50 min |
| May 29, 11:36 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 34 min |
| May 30, 12:00 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 35 min |
| May 30, 3:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 50 min |
| May 30, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 47 min |
| May 30, 5:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 36 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.