Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1996, 4:53 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports 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
- May 29, 1996, 4:53 PM MDT (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1996, 5:40 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 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 22:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 5:34 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Hobbs, NM | |
| May 29, 5:47 PM MDT | Hail 1.5 | Hobbs, 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, 10.9 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
- 2227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 986 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
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 29, 1:14 PM MDT, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 1:14 PM MDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 145 PM CDT (1245 PM MDT) WED MAY 29 1996 FRONTAL BOUNDARY APPEARS TO BE OSCILLATING IN THE VICINITY OF MAF-INK SO FAR TOADY. 18Z RUC FINALLY SHOWS PRESSURE RISES SOUTH OF THE FRONT EXCEEDING PRESSURE RISES NORTH OF THE FRONT. 18Z RUC ALSO0 SHOWS MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND THETA-E ADVECTION ARE FOCUSED NEAR JAL NEW MEXICO WHERE FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND DRY LINE INTERSECT. WITH SURFACE DEW POINT IN THE 60S INCHING INTO SE NM...LI DOWN TO -8...CAP STRENGTH DOWN TO +2C AND PUFFY CU OUTSIDE...EXPECT FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND EASTERN SLOPES OF DAVIS MOUNTAINS TO BE FOCUS FOR INITIATION OF CONVECTION LATER THIS AFTERNOON. THIS W(ILL BE UPDATED VIA THE SHORT TERM FORECASTS AS NEEDED. WITH ONSET OF LOW LEVEL JET AND 850MB THETA-E RIDGE ACROSS CWA WILL KEEP POPS UP FOR THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. CNM 64 10 MAF 68 40 MRF 58 20 P07 74 20 FAGEN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 29, 10:59 AM MDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before
TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-NMZ027>029-300500- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1158 AM CDT (1058 AM MDT) WED MAY 29 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 WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY OVER THE NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN WILL COMBINE WITH DAYTIME HEATING...RELATIVELY HIGH HUMIDITIES AND A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE TO DEVELOP WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH THE PERMIAN BASIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON. MOST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. HOWEVER...THERE IS A CHANCE THAT LATE AFTERNOON OR EVENING THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP NORTH AND EAST OFV MIDLAND/ODESSA COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS...WITH A RISK OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. FAGEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 3:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 61 min |
| May 29, 3:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 46 min |
| May 29, 4:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 58 min |
| May 29, 4:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 65 min |
| May 29, 4:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 34 min |
| May 29, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 65 min |
| May 29, 5:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Upton | 62 min |
| May 29, 5:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 62 min |
| May 29, 5:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 61 min |
| May 29, 5:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 62 min |
| May 29, 5:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 46 min |
| May 29, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 65 min |
| May 29, 5:37 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Martin | 63 min |
| May 29, 5:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 65 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.