Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 234, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2004, 6:22 PM MDT 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
- Jun 18, 2004, 6:22 PM MDT (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2004, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lea County, NM
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 1682 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2276 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
700 WUUS54 KMAF 190022 SVRMAF NMC025-190115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 619 PM MDT FRI JUN 18 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 715 PM MDT * AT 617 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CROSSROADS...OR 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF TATUM. A SECOND SEVERE STORM IS LOCATED 18 MILES NORTH OF MALJAMAR. MOVEMENT IS EAST AT 15 MPH * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CROSSROADS... TATUM... GLADIOLA... THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE INJURY AND DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. FOR YOUR PROTECTION... MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3292 10373 3292 10306 3354 10309 3355 10369 $$
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 18, 1:30 PM MDT, 4 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 1:30 PM MDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 230 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2004 .SHORT TERM... UPSLOPE FLOW COMBINED WITH A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS HAS ALLOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS. VISIBLE SATELLITE ALSO SHOWS NEW CUMULUS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE GUADALUPE AND SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS OF NEW MEXICO. ELSEWHERE...AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY CONTINUES TO PUSH SOUTH ACROSS THE EASTERN TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS TOWARD THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA. STRONG AFTERNOON HEATING AND VERY MOIST AIRMASS AHEAD OF THIS FEATURE MAY ALLOW SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE NORTH/NORTHEAST ZONES BY LATE AFTERNOON. HAVE TRENDED THE HIGHEST POPS FOR THIS EVENING ACROSS THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS...AND ACROSS THE NORTHERN PART OF THE AREA. WILL INCLUDE MENTION OF SEVERE ACROSS THE NORTHEAST TONIGHT...AS CAPES WILL BE HIGHEST IN THIS AREA...ALONG WITH SUFFICIENT SHEAR FOR ORGANIZED DEVELOPMENT. A FEW ISOLATED SHOWERS OR STORMS MAY LINGER AFTER MIDNIGHT IN THE NORTH/NORTHEAST. OTHERWISE...CONTINUED WARM OVERNIGHT READINGS WILL PERSIST OVER MOST LOCATIONS. .LONG TERM... OVERALL...THE CURRENT FORECAST IS IN GOOD SHAPE AND ONLY MINOR CHANGES WERE MADE. THE SYNOPTIC SCALE PATTERN THROUGH THE PERIOD WILL CHANGE LITTLE OVER OUR AREA. THE BROAD SUBTROPICAL RIDGE OVER THE NORTH CENTRAL GULF OF MEXICO WILL REMAIN STRONG THROUGH SATURDAY...THEN GRADUALLY WEAKEN EARLY NEXT WEEK. A MID-LEVEL TROUGH ALONG THE WEST COAST ALONG WITH A CONTINUED FLOW OF LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE WILL PROVIDE LOW CHANCES FOR AFTERNOON/EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA. TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO COOL TO NEAR NORMAL LEVELS THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH DECREASING 1000-500MB THICKNESSES. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BIG SPRING TX 73 97 73 94 / 20 20 20 10 CARLSBAD NM 70 96 69 97 / 30 30 20 30 DRYDEN TX 74 95 70 93 / 10 10 10 10 FORT STOCKTON TX 73 98 71 96 / 30 20 20 20 GUADALUPE PASS TX 69 93 69 90 / 30 30 20 30 HOBBS NM 71 97 69 95 / 20 30 20 20 MARFA TX 61 89 61 84 / 30 30 20 20 MIDLAND INTL AIRPORT TX 72 98 73 94 / 20 20 10 10 ODESSA TX 73 99 72 94 / 20 20 10 10 WINK TX 76 102 72 100 / 30 20 20 20 && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. NM...NONE. && 21/06
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 1:40 PM MDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 240 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2004 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-191000- ANDREWS-BIG BEND AREA-BORDEN-CENTRAL LEA COUNTY-CRANE- DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-DAWSON-ECTOR-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS-GAINES- GLASSCOCK-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY- HOWARD-LOVING-MARFA PLATEAU-MARTIN-MIDLAND-MITCHELL- NORTHERN LEA COUNTY-PECOS-PRESIDIO VALLEY-REAGAN- REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS-SCURRY-SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY- TERRELL-UPTON-VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR-WARD-WINKLER- 240 PM CDT (140 PM MDT) FRI JUN 18 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS...THE NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN...AND THE WESTERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS THIS EVENING. A FEW OF THESE STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. OTHER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS EVENING ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SLOW MOVING...SO VERY HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF ARROYOS...DRAWS...BAR DITCHES...AND AREA ROADS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS...THE NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN...AND THE WESTERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS TONIGHT.
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.