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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 3, 2004Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 2004, 9:37 PM MST for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 53 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 3, 2004, 9:37 PM MST (04:37 UTC)
Expired
Mar 3, 2004, 10:30 PM MST
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lea County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 186 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-03-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-03-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 258 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
465 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
258 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
343 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMAF 040437
SVRMAF
NMC025-040530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
937 PM MST WED MAR 3 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1030 PM MST

* AT 936 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF BUCKEYE...OR ABOUT 20
  MILES WEST OF LOVINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  TATUM...LOVINGTON...MCDONALD...KNOWLES...GLADIOLA...CROSSROADS AND
  BUCKEYE

LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS...DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINS 
ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

LAT...LON 3355 10369 3302 10373 3277 10380 3278 10309
          3356 10307

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 3, 10:10 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy50 min
Mar 4, 6:18 AM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.