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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 7, 2001Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2001, 10:00 PM MST for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports 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: Mar 7, 2001, 10:00 PM MST (05:00 UTC)
Expired: Mar 7, 2001, 10:45 PM MST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Eddy County, NM

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 7, 10:33 PM MST	Hail 0.88	Carlsbad, NM
Mar 7, 10:40 PM MST	Hail 0.88	Carlsbad, NM	A trained storm spotter reported hail covering the ground along U.S. Highway 385.

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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 205 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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -239 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1093 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 151 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 080501
SVRMAF
NMC015-080545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1000 PM MST WED MAR 7 2001

THE MIDLAND/ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 1045 PM MST

* AT 955 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF WHITES CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...                
  AVALON...OTIS...MALAGA...WHITES CITY...CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL   
  PARK...LOVING...AND CARLSBAD.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS NEAR 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN
THE WARNED AREA.

THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL ALSO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE
FLOODING OF LOW SPOTS...UNDERPASSES...AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS. IF YOU
ENCOUNTER A FLOODED STRETCH OF ROADWAY...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS IT. 
THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN IT APPEARS.

LAT...LON 3253 10472 3201 10460 3216 10407 3231 10398
          3246 10401 3262 10413

SMALLCOMB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 7, 7:30 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	45 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.