Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2005, 10:17 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 58 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 2, 2005, 10:17 PM MDT (04:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2005, 11:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lea County, NM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 8:05 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 1625 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2374 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMAF 030418 SVRMAF NMC025-030515- /O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0113.050603T0417Z-050603T0515Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1017 PM MDT THU JUN 2 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 1115 PM MDT * AT 1012 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 80 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 22 MILES WEST OF JAL MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... EUNICE... JAL... HOBBS... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LITTLE ADVANCE WARNING. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED OR A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO A SAFE STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3258 10380 3201 10370 3209 10307 3278 10309 $$
1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KMAF 030500
SVSMAF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1159 PM CDT THU JUN 2 2005
NMC025-030515-
/O.CON.KMAF.SV.W.0113.000000T0000Z-050603T0515Z/
LEA-
1059 PM MDT THU JUN 2 2005
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1115 PM MDT FOR
SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL LEA COUNTY...
AT 1052 PM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTH OF HOBBS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
40 MPH.
AT 1045 PM MDT...WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH WAS REPORTED BY WEATHER
SPOTTERS AT THE HOBBS AIRPORT.
AT 1055 PM MDT...WINDS OF 65 MPH WAS REPORTED BY WEATHER SPOTTERS
3 MILES NORTH OF HOBBS. POWER LINES WERE REPORTED DOWN IN THE
CITY OF HOBBS.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE...NADINE
AND HOBBS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM MDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 3210 10307 3203 10367 3202 10369 3211 10369
3213 10371 3252 10369 3253 10376 3259 10376
3278 10308
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 9:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.