Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 4:15 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Artesia, NM | |
| Jun 6, 4:22 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | Artesia, NM | |
| Jun 6, 5:08 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Artesia, 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 4:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 63 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.