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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 24, 1996Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 7:22 PM MDT for Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 48 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
May 24, 1996, 7:22 PM MDT (01:22 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1996, 8:10 PM MDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2454 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2454 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2042 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.9

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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 May 24, 1:51 PM MDT, 5 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 1:51 PM MDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
240 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 1996

CONVECTION FIRING AT THIS TIME IN PANHANDLE WHERE MOIST CONVERGENCE
IS BEING ENHANCED BY STALLED FRONT JUST NORTH OF AMA. CLOSER TO HOME
...MODIFIED MAF SOUNDING SHOWS AT LEAST A FEW MORE DEGREES NEEDED TO
BUST CAP. THANKS TO IN PART TO MERIDIONAL FLOW ALOFT...DRYLINE
CONVERGENCE STILL WEAK ACROSS MOST OF FORECAST AREA...WITH THIS
UNLIKELY TO CHANGE AS BOTH MODELS SHOW LITTLE IN THE WAY OF UPWARD
FORCING AND WATER VAPOR IMAGERY JUST SHOWS JET FINGER AXIS DRIFTING
EAST ACROSS NM. SUSPECT STATUS QUO NEAR ZONE ISSUANCE WILL BE CUE
WHETHER OR NOT TO ADD EVENING THUNDER FOR EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN...
BUT AT THIS TIME HAVE DOUBTS CAP WILL BREAK OVER FORECAST AREA IN
TIME THIS EVENING.

POSSIBILITY FOR SEVERE MUCH BETTER SATURDAY EVENING AS UPPER SPEED
MAX ROTATES OVER SOUTHERN NM AHEAD OF APPROACHING CUTOFF LOW OVER
SOUTHWEST USA. RESULTING INCREASED SPEED SHEAR AND MID-LEVEL COOLING
SHOULD HELP SEVERE CONVECTION FIRE ALONG DRYLINE IN NORTHERN
FORECAST AREA.

FOR TONIGHT...WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES ABOVE MODELS GUIDANCE...WHICH
HAVE CONSISTENTLY UNDERFORECASTED BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE LATELY.
LOW LEVEL JET SHOULD WARRANT MENTION OF STRONGER WINDS IN EASTERN
FORECAST AREA. GIVEN RICH MOISTURE AND SOUTHEAST FLOW OVERNIGHT...
ALSO BELIEVE LOW CLOUDS SHOULD REACH NEAR MAF AGAIN SATURDAY MORNING.

CNM  69/0
MAF  73/1
MRF  58/0
P07  71/0

TUR~NAGE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 2:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines46 min
May 25, 3:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines62 min
May 25, 4:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines61 min
May 25, 4:19 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFGaines51 min
May 25, 4:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson35 min
May 25, 5:11 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFGaines34 min
May 25, 5:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson62 min
May 25, 5:41 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFDawson64 min
May 24, 6:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea67 min
May 24, 8:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea46 min
May 24, 8:50 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFLea35 min
May 25, 1:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy50 min
May 25, 1:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea50 min
May 25, 1:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea62 min
May 25, 3:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea50 min
May 25, 3:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea65 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.