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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 207, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 19, 1996Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1996, 4:02 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 33 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: Aug 19, 1996, 4:02 PM MDT (22:02 UTC)
Expired: Aug 19, 1996, 4:35 PM MDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Lea County, NM

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 Aug 19, 1:51 PM MDT, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 1:51 PM MDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 19, 10:50 AM MDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 19, 3:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1996 Every 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.