Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 29, 1996, 11:36 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 34 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, 11:36 PM MDT (05:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1996, 12:10 AM MDT
- In force
- 34 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 05:20 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, 11:59 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Tatum, NM | |
| May 30, 12:15 AM MDT | Hail 2 | 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, 5.6 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
- 1926 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1987 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 12.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 300536 TORMAF NMC025-300610- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1236 AM CDT (1136 PM MDT) THU MAY 30 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1210 AM MDT (110 AM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...CENTRAL LEA COUNTY AT 1135 PM MDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR 15 MILES WEST OF LOVINGTON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... MCDONALD AND TATUM. THIS STORM SHOULD PASS WEST OF LOVINGTON. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. $$ TURNAGE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 11:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 48 min |
| May 30, 12:00 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 35 min |
| May 30, 3:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 50 min |
| May 30, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 47 min |
| May 30, 5:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 36 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.