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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 30, 2000Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2000, 3:00 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 30, 2000, 3:00 PM MDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 2000, 3:45 PM MDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lea County, NM

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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
Apr 30, 3:30 PM MDT	Hail 1	Lovington, NM	Hail covered State Highway 206. This cell was the south end of a small multicell cluster that crossed into Texas and became a low-topped supercell storm.

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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 174 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2864 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KMAF 302102
SVRMAF
NMC025-302145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
300 PM MDT SUN APR 30 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LEA COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 345 PM MDT

* AT 254 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES WEST OF MCDONALD...MOVING TO THE EAST
  AND SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...               
  MCDONALD...LOVINGTON...TATUM...AND STATE HIGHWAY 206. 

STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY FROM THIS STORM...BUT THERE WILL
BE LITTLE IF ANY HEAVY RAIN.  MOST OF THE RAINFALL WILL EVAPORATE FROM 
THIS STORM...RESULTING IN STRONG WINDS. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY 
STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STOR PASSES.

LAT...LON 3328 10359 3304 10365 3286 10361 3287 10306
          3328 1}0304

DJK

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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.