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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 3, 1996Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1996, 1:29 AM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 66 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 3, 1996, 1:29 AM MDT (07:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1996, 2:35 AM MDT
In force
66 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 07:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 839 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 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
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

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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, 7:25 PM MDT, 6 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 7:25 PM MDT, 6 hours 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
823 PM CDT (723 PM MDT) SUN JUN 2 1996

SEVERE WEATHER ONGOING ATTM. SLOW MOVING CELLS OVER CRANE...REAGAN
AND UPTON COUNTIES CAUSING FLASH FLOOD THREAT THIS EVENING. OUTFLOW
BOUNDARY INTERACTION IN THE WEAK WIND FIELDS OVER FA KEEPING
SCATTERED STRONG/SVR STORMS GOING INTO THE EVENING HOURS. ADDITIONAL
STORMS MOVING S-WARD FROM NORTHERN LEA COUNTY AND YOAKUM COUNTIES
EXPECTED TO IMPACT FvA NEXT 1 TO 3 HOURS. STATIONARY FRONY DRAPED
ACROSS W-TX NOT EXPECTED TO MOVE MUCH NEXT 24 HRS SO REPEAT
PERFORMANCE OF STORM ACTIVITY POSSIBLE FOR TOMORROW WITH MOISTURE IN
PLACE AND COOL TEMPS ALOFT.

PENDERGRAST

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 9:04 PM MDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-030335-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1002 PM CDT (902 PM MDT) SUN JUN 2 1996

HERE IS AN UPDATE ON ALL OF THE WATCHES IN EFFECT IN WEST TEXAS
AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO :

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
#530 IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT (MIDNIGHT MDT) :

IN WEST TEXAS :

GAINES        DAWSON          BORDEN        ANDREWS
MARTIN        HOWARD          CULBERSON     MIDLAND
ECTOR         REEVES          GLASSCOCK     WINKLER
LOVING

IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO :

LEA           EDDY

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE
FAVORABLE FOR SEdVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
Local storm report, Jun 3, 1:19 AM MDT, 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 6:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton33 min
Jun 2, 6:53 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFReagan3 hr
Jun 2, 6:53 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFCrane, Upton3 hr
Jun 2, 7:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWard48 min
Jun 2, 7:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Pecos34 min
Jun 2, 8:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Pecos, Ward60 min
Jun 2, 8:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines66 min
Jun 2, 8:39 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFGaines66 min
Jun 2, 9:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews47 min
Jun 2, 9:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves, Ward51 min
Jun 2, 9:34 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFGaines51 min
Jun 2, 9:48 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFAndrews62 min
Jun 2, 10:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWinkler50 min
Jun 2, 10:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor47 min
Jun 2, 10:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor, Martin, Midland58 min
Jun 2, 7:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea50 min
Jun 2, 7:35 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFLea50 min
Jun 2, 8:22 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFLea48 min
Jun 2, 9:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea60 min
Jun 2, 10:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea48 min
Jun 2, 10:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy, Lea65 min
Jun 2, 11:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea59 min
Jun 3, 12:29 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea61 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.