Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 188, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1996, 6:29 PM MDT for Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 46 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
- Jul 15, 1996, 6:29 PM MDT (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1996, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 386 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 Jul 15, 2:18 PM MDT, 4 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 2:18 PM MDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 318 PM CDT MON JUL 15 1996 PCGRIDDS OR INTERNET DATA UNAVAILABLE THIS TIME AROUND. WATER VAPOR SATL SHOWS A WEAK VORT MAX SOUTH OF AZ. A SPEED MAX WAS ALSO MOVING E/WARD NORTH OF LBB. WINDS ALOFT ABOVE 7H GENERALLY FROM THE SOUTH VEERING TO WEST AOA 25H. NEW THUNDERSTORMS FIRING OVER MOST OF CWA..MOSTLY FROM MAF AND SOUTHWARD KEEPING US OCCUPIED. AGREED MORE WITH THE NGM SOLN THIS TIME. BOTH MODELS AT THE SFC WERE PRETTY SIMILAR WITH FCSTS THIS TIME. THE AVN THRU THIS FCST RUN DVLPD A STRONGER UPPER RIDGE OVER THE SRN USA..WHILE SEEMINGLY IGNORING THE SFC REFLECTION. THIS WAS PICKED UP BETTER BY THE NGM UPPER AIR FCST. THE AVN ALSO LOOKED TOO DRY CONSIDERING CONTINUED SELY SFC FLOW..WITH THE UPPER AIR MOISTURE IN NO BIG HURRY TO LEAVE THE REGION. AS MENTIONED BEFORE..THESE SLOW MOVING STORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS AND AGGRAVATE FLOODING OVER AREAS THAT ALREADY RECEIVED A LOT OF RAINS YSTRY. FOR TONIGHT..WILL GO WITH CURRENT GUIDANCE. COOR WITH LBB..THANKS FOR THE HELP. COMMENTS ARE WELCOME.... CNM 69 / 20 MAF 68 / 30 MRF 61 / 30 P07 74 / 20 BOYD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 6:59 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Loving, Reeves | 2 hr |
| Jul 16, 2:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis, Pecos | 3 hr |
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.