Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 11, 2001Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2001, 9:00 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: May 11, 2001, 9:00 PM MDT (03:00 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 2001, 10:00 PM MDT
In force: 60 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), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:04 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 11, 4:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 271 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: 1400 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 787 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 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 120302
SVRMAF
NMC025-120400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
900 PM MDT FRI MAY 11 2001

THE MIDLAND/ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1000 PM MDT

* AT 858 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTH OF GLADIOLA...MOVING SOUTH AT 15
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...             
  GLADIOLA...MCDONALD...TATUM AND LOVINGTON.

LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 80 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED
AREA.

WHEN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...YOU SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG
BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM PASSES...EXCEPT IN AN
EMERGENCY. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED LOW WATER
CROSSINGS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
OFFICE.

LAT...LON 3301 10357 3290 10323 3350 10306 3358 10326

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 11, 7:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	28 min
May 11, 7:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.