Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 17, 1996, 10:39 PM MDT for 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
- Sep 17, 1996, 10:39 PM MDT (04:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 1996, 11:25 PM MDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lea County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 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
- 2111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1630 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
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 Sep 17, 8:05 PM MDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 17, 8:05 PM MDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 905 PM CDT (805 PM MDT) TUE SEP 17 1996 PRESENTLY TRACKING TWO SEVERE STORMS IN CWA BOTH OF WHICH ARE LEFT SPLIT STORMS WITH INFLOW GRADIENT AND MID-LEVEL OVERHANGS ON NORTH SIDE. AS LOW LEVEL JET INCREASES OVER NEXT HOUR...MAY SEE TEMPORARY DECREASE IN STRENGTH AS RELATIVE INFLOW TRIES TO CHANGE TO A SOUTHEAST FLANK. MATHEWS/FAGEN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 17, 8:13 PM MDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-180415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 913 PM CDT (813 PM MDT) TUE SEP 17 1996 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR MUCH OF THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 1033 INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF GAINES...DAWSON...BORDEN...SCURRY...ANDREWS...MARTIN...HOWARD... WINKLER...ECTOR...MIDLAND AND GLASSCOCK. SOME OF THE CITIES INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ARE SEMINOLE...LAMESA...SNYDER ...ANDREWS...KERMIT...ODESSA...MIDLAND AND BIG SPRING. EARLIER...AT 759 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL IN THE CITY OF KERMIT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THE ABOVE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 6:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 62 min |
| Sep 17, 6:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 66 min |
| Sep 17, 6:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 64 min |
| Sep 17, 7:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 64 min |
| Sep 17, 7:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 64 min |
| Sep 17, 8:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 65 min |
| Sep 17, 11:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 48 min |
| Sep 17, 11:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Gaines | 50 min |
| Sep 18, 12:15 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 50 min |
| Sep 18, 10:19 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden | 3 hr |
| Sep 18, 12:44 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Scurry | 4 hr |
| Sep 17, 9:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 63 min |
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.