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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 6, 1996Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1996, 4:14 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 46 min. 3 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
Jun 6, 1996, 4:14 PM MDT (22:14 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1996, 5:00 PM MDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Eddy County, NM

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 6, 4:15 PM MDTHail 0.75Artesia, NM
Jun 6, 4:22 PM MDTHail 0.88Artesia, NM
Jun 6, 5:08 PM MDTHail 0.75Artesia, 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 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 206 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 1996-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 435 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 1996-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 188 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
435 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-686 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2622 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
382 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 062214
SVRMAF
NMC015-062300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
514 PM CDT (414 PM MDT) THU JUN 6 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM MDT (600 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO

   ...CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN EDDY COUNTY
 
AT 411 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ARTESIA OR 11 MILES NORTH OF
AVALON MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...AVALON AND CARLSBAD.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

$$

FRANCIS/PENDERGRAST

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 6, 1:54 PM MDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 1:54 PM MDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
254 PM CDT THU JUN 6 1996

A BOUNDARY..I BELIEVE PRE-FRONTAL IS LURKING VERY CLOSE TO OUR RDA.
WINDS NORTH OF THIS BOUNDARY ARE BECOMING NRLY 10-20 KTS. EXPECT IT
TO REACH US BEFORE 20Z. THE DRYLINE AS OF 19Z HAD MOVED A BIT EAST
SINCE THE MORNING DISCO..AND LIES N/S FROM NEAR FST TO ALONG THE
TX/NM BORDER TO SOUTH OF CLOVIS. THE CDFNT WAS LOCATED FURTHER NORTH
OVER THE PANHANDLE NEAR LBB.

FROM SATL PERSPECTIVE..A WEAK NWLY FLOW ALOFT OVER RIDGE LOCATED
OVER THE SWRN USA. THE CLOUDS ON THE INCREASE OVER THE CWA MTN
REGIONS SO EXPECT CNVTN TO DVLP SOON. A SFC LOW AS OF 18Z WAS OVER
SERN NM WITH VERY HI TEMPS NOTED (AKA 106F AT CNM). THE FCST MODELS
INITIALIZED FINE..AND WERE SIMILAR WITH FCST SOLUTIONS. THE NGM HELD
HIGHER RH'S REGION WIDE THAN THE ETA..OTHERWISE NOTHING MAJOR TO
COMPLAIN ABOUT. WILL STAY CLOSE TO MACHINE NUMBERS FOR OVERNITE
LOWS. OUR AFOS PLAYING HARDBALL..SORRY FOR THE DELAY. COMMENTS AND
QUESTIONS WELCOMED...

CNM  67 / 10
MAF  66 / 20
MRF  53 /  0
P07  70 / 20

BOYD

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 10:51 AM MDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before
TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-NMZ027>029-070500-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1151 AM CDT (1051 AM MDT) THU JUN 6 1996

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS:

ANDREWS   CULBERSON  GLASSCOCK   MARTIN    REAGAN   UPTON
BORDEN    DAWSON     HOWARD      MIDLAND   REEVES   WARD
BREWSTER  ECTOR      JEFF DAVIS  PECOS     SCURRY   WINKLER
CRANE     GAINES     LOVING      PRESIDIO  TERRELL

AND IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO:

EDDY      LEA

SYNOPSIS: A DRYLINE THAT EXTENDED FROM THE BIG BEND...NORTHWARD
ALONG THE TEXAS/NEW MEXICO BORDER...SHOULD MOVE EASTWARD THIS
AFTERNOON. A COLD FRONT OVER THE TEXAS PANHANDLE WILL MOVE SOUTHWARD
AND PASS THROUGH THE PERMIAN BASIN THIS EVENING. THE LIFT PROVIDED
BY THIS FRONT...ALONG WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES APPROACHING THE CENTURY
MARK WILL HELP INITIATE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD FORM NEAR THE WEST TEXAS MOUNTAINS THIS
AFTERNOON...AND OVER WEST TEXAS NORTH OF THE PECOS RIVER DURING THE
LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE
STORMS WILL BE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. THESE THUNDERSTORMS
COULD APPROACH THE SEVERE LIMI*TS...MAINLY NORTHEAST OF THE PERMIAN
BASIN.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED DURING THE EVENING HOURS.

BOYD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 4:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy63 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.