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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 14, 1996Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1996, 7:18 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 47 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 14, 1996, 7:18 PM MDT (01:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1996, 8:05 PM MDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Eddy County, NM

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 14, 7:35 PM MDTHail 1Lakewood, NM
Jun 14, 7:35 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 61Lakewood, NM
Jun 14, 8:05 PM MDTHail 1.25Carlsbad, 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, 1.3 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 619 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 98 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
619 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-125 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1464 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 6:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy48 min
Jun 14, 8:03 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy2 hr
Jun 14, 8:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy61 min
Jun 14, 11:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.