Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 24, 1996, 8:50 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 35 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
- May 24, 1996, 8:50 PM MDT (02:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1996, 9:25 PM MDT
- In force
- 35 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 02:50 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 24, 9:07 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | 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 00:00Z, 2.8 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 250250 TORMAF NMC025-250325- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 950 PM CDT (850 PM MDT) FRI MAY 24 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 925 PM MDT (1025 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...NORTHERN LEA COUNTY AT 848 PM MDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TATUM MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... TATUM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. $$ HUBER/TURNAGE &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 6:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 67 min |
| May 24, 7:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 48 min |
| May 24, 8:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 46 min |
| May 25, 1:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 50 min |
| May 25, 1:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 50 min |
| May 25, 1:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 62 min |
| May 25, 3:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 50 min |
| May 25, 3:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 65 min |
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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.