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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

July 19, 1996Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1996, 11:35 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 65 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 19, 1996, 11:35 PM MDT (05:35 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 1996, 12:40 AM MDT
In force
65 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 05:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Jul 19, 1:23 PM MDT, 10 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 1:23 PM MDT, 10 hours 12 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 20, 2:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea64 min
Jul 20, 5:40 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy3 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.