Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1996, 3:47 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report 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
- Jul 31, 1996, 3:47 PM MDT (21:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 1996, 4:50 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 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 21:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 4:35 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Tatum, 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -315 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1995 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 312150 SVRMAF NMC025-312250- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 447 PM CDT (347 PM MDT) WED JUL 31 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND T
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 31, 1:56 PM MDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 1:56 PM MDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 254 PM CDT WED JUL 31 1996 LATEST 88D IMAGERY SHOWING TSRA MOVING WEST OFF THE DAVIS AND GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS AT THIS TIME. IN NORTHERN FA...SURFACE BOUNDARY MENTIONED IN PREVIOUS AFDMAF HAS BECOME DIFFICULT TO DETECT IN SURFACE DATA. AGREE WITH LBB THAT THIS FEATURE SHOULD CONTINUE TO WEAKEN AND MOVE NORTH AS SOUTHEAST SURFACE FLOW STRENGTHENS THIS EVENING PER RUC DATA. THE SHORTWAVE ADVERTISED BY MODELS TO DIVE SOUTHEAST TOWARD NORTHERN FA TONIGHT REMAINS UNSEEN ON WATER VAPOR IMAGERY. GIVEN TROUBLES MODELS HAVE HAD HANDLING NORTHWEST FLOW SHORTWAVES LATELY...AM TEMPTED TO DROP MENTION OF RAIN FOR NORTHERN FA AFTER SUNSET WITH A LACK OF SURFACE AND UPPER FORCING. FOR TEMPERATURES...A COMBINATION OF PERSISTENCE AND GUIDANCE SEEMS LIKE THE WAY TO GO IN THIS STAGNANT WEATHER REGIME. WILL EXPECT ATMOSPHERE TO GRADUALLY DRY OUT ALOFT AS FLOW BECOMES MORE ZONAL OVER THE USA DURING THE NEXT FEW DAYS. THANKS TO LBB FOR INPUT. CNM 73/1 MAF 73/1 MRF 62/3 P07 76/0 TURNAGE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 10:15 AM MDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before
NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-010500- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1113 AM CDT (1013 AM MDT) WED JUL 31 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 SURFACE BOUNDARY ORIENTED EAST-WEST ACROSS THE NORTHERN OUTLOOK AREA WILL BE A LIKELY AREA FOR THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ALTHOUGH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE...UNFAVORABLE WINDS ALOFT SHOULD MINIMIZE THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER. OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE DAVIS AND GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...BUT THESE STORMS SHOULD STAY WEAK AND DISSIPATE ARO.UND SUNSET. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. TURNAGE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 65 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.