Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 367, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 4, 2004Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 4, 2004, 4:35 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 55 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
Oct 4, 2004, 4:35 PM MDT (22:35 UTC)
Expired
Oct 4, 2004, 5:30 PM MDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Eddy County, NM

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 12:00Z on 2004-10-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1912 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2004-10-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1912 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
591 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
5.6

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMAF 042235
SVRMAF
NMC015-042330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
435 PM MDT MON OCT 4 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 530 PM MDT

* AT 430 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF MALAGA...OR 20 MILES EAST
  OF CARLSBAD. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  EASTERN EDDY COUNTY...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MEANS THAT SEVERE WEATHER IS OCCURRING
OR IS IMMINENT. WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... HAIL THREE-QUARTERS
OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER OR LARGER... VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE ALL LIKELY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE STORM
MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER NOW.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.

LAT...LON 3241 10394 3201 10426 3201 10372 3242 10371

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 4, 7:32 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea43 min
Oct 4, 5:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy58 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.