Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2005, 7:48 PM MDT for Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 42 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
- May 6, 2005, 7:48 PM MDT (01:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2005, 8:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:52 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 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 633 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1290 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMAF 070149 TORMAF NMC015-025-070230- /O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0005.050507T0148Z-050507T0230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 748 PM MDT FRI MAY 6 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO EXTREME EAST CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 830 PM MDT * AT 745 PM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO OVER EXTREME EAST CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY...OR 29 MILES EAST OF CARLSBAD... MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... EXTREME EAST CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY... SOUTHWESTERN LEA COUNTY... A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3244 10388 3227 10388 3226 10358 3249 10359 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMAF 070204 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 903 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 2005 NMC015-025-070230- /O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-050507T0230Z/ LEA-EDDY- 803 PM MDT FRI MAY 6 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 830 PM MDT FOR EAST CENTRAL EDDY AND SOUTHWESTERN LEA COUNTIES... AT 759 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECT A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER THE EDDY COUNTY AND LEA COUNTY LINE 32 MILES EAST OF CARLSBAD...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE TORNADO INCLUDE...SOUTHWESTERN LEA COUNTY. A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW. LAT...LON 3244 10388 3227 10388 3226 10358 3249 10359 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 62 min |
| May 6, 6:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| May 6, 7:22 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Eddy | 23 min |
| May 6, 7:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 63 min |
| May 6, 8:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 67 min |
| May 7, 12:28 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 47 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.