Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2006, 3:37 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 2006, 3:37 PM MDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2006, 4:30 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 Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 12:08 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1954 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 626 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.3
- Supercell composite
- 20.2
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 May 5, 1:46 PM MDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 5, 1:46 PM MDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 5, 1:57 PM MDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 257 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 2006 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-061000- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS- NORTHERN LEA COUNTY-CENTRAL LEA COUNTY-SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY-GAINES- DAWSON-BORDEN-SCURRY-ANDREWS-MARTIN-HOWARD-MITCHELL- VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR- REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS-LOVING-WINKLER-ECTOR-MIDLAND- GLASSCOCK-WARD-CRANE-UPTON-REAGAN-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA- PECOS-PRESIDIO VALLEY-MARFA PLATEAU-BIG BEND AREA-TERRELL- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- 257 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 2006 /157 PM MDT FRI MAY 5 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO PLAINS...THE PERMIAN BASIN...THE WESTERN LOW PLAINS AND THE LOWER TRANS PECOS REGION. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE...WITH VERY LARGE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF SOFTBALLS AND DAMAGING WINDS. A FEW TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO PLAINS...THE PERMIAN BASIN...AND THE WESTERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY ANY THUNDERSTORM THAT DEVELOPS...WITH LOCALIZED FLOODING POSSIBLE. RESIDENTS ACROSS THE PERMIAN BASIN SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS THAT ARE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE THIS EVENING. IF THREATENING WEATHER IS ENCOUNTERED...TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. ANY STORM THAT DEVELOPS WILL RAPIDLY BECOME SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL CONTINUE FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND FOR WEST TEXAS NORTH OF THE PECOS RIVER. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES... AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN MIDLAND CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT /LOWER CASE/ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/MIDLAND
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 5, 1:58 PM MDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 258 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 2006 TXZ074-075-081-052100- PECOS-BIG BEND AREA-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA- 258 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 2006 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT... THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR NORTHEASTERN BREWSTER AND SOUTHWESTERN PECOS COUNTIES. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARATHON...OR ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT STOCKTON...NEAR THE BREWSTER AND PECOS COUNTY LINE AT 255 PM CDT. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES...SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS NEAR 50 MPH. THE STORM WILL MAINLY AFFECT RURAL AREAS OF WESTERN PECOS COUNTY...POSSIBLY ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 385 ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON. SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF THIS STORM APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA SOURCES FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 6:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 53 min |
| May 4, 6:22 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Gaines | 53 min |
| May 4, 7:09 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Gaines | 66 min |
| May 4, 7:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 58 min |
| May 4, 8:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 57 min |
| May 4, 8:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 66 min |
| May 4, 8:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Scurry | 57 min |
| May 4, 9:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 60 min |
| May 4, 9:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 45 min |
| May 5, 6:00 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | MAF | 15 hr | |
| May 5, 4:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 65 min |
| May 5, 4:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 57 min |
| May 5, 4:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 63 min |
| May 5, 5:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 57 min |
| May 5, 5:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 55 min |
| May 5, 5:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson, Gaines | 54 min |
| May 5, 4:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 58 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.