Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1996, 7:05 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1996, 7:05 PM MDT (01:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1996, 7:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lea County, NM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 314 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
- 839 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1968 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
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 Jun 2, 9:30 AM MDT, 9 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 9:30 AM MDT, 9 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1030 AM CDT SUN JUN 2 1996 MAF 12Z SOUNDING SHOWING SIGNIFICANT 24 HOUR COOLING AND MOISTENING BELOW 700 MB. DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE WITH GOOD ACCURACY LOCATIONS OF BOUNDARIES AT THIS TIME...HOPING VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGES WILL HELP IN NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. STEADY ENELY UPSLOPE FLOW OVER REGION USUALLY TOUGH TO GET DEEP CONVECTION GOING AS MAX TEMPS SUPPRESSED BELOW CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURES. THINK THAT BOUNDARIES WILL HAVE TO GET IN ON ACT IN ORDER TO GET LIFT UP TO LFC...TO SUPPORT OF DEEP CONVECTION. WILL TRIM HIGH TEMP AT MAF BY ONE CATEGORY AS MOIST AIR MASS SUPPRESSES HEATING. WITH OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY IN AREA...WILL NEED TO* KEEP POPS IN BUT AWAY FROM BOUNDARIES AND MOUNTAINS...SHOULD BE TOUGH TO GET STORMS TO DEVELOP. MATHEWS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 5:53 PM MDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-030025- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 652 PM CDT (552 PM MDT) SUN JUN 2 1996 HERE IS AN UPDATE ON ALL OF THE WATCHES IN EFFECT IN WEST TEXAS : THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #524 IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT : GLASSCOCK REAGAN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #528 IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT : GAINES DAWSON BORDEN SCURRY MARTIN HOWARD MITCHELL 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 6:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 33 min |
| Jun 2, 6:53 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reagan | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 6:53 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Crane, Upton | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 7:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 7:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos | 34 min |
| Jun 2, 8:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos, Ward | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 8:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 66 min |
| Jun 2, 8:39 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Gaines | 66 min |
| Jun 2, 9:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 9:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves, Ward | 51 min |
| Jun 2, 9:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Gaines | 51 min |
| Jun 2, 9:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews | 62 min |
| Jun 2, 10:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 50 min |
| Jun 2, 10:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 10:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Martin, Midland | 58 min |
| Jun 2, 7:35 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 50 min |
| Jun 2, 8:22 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 9:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 10:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 10:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 11:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 12:29 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 61 min |
| Jun 3, 1:29 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 66 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.