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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 256, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 15, 2006, 6:51 AM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 37 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
- Oct 15, 2006, 6:51 AM MDT (12:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 15, 2006, 7:28 AM MDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Eddy County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:54 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 288 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 572 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Oct 15, 2:55 AM MDT, 3 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 15, 2:55 AM MDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Oct 14, 6:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Presidio | 62 min |
| Oct 14, 7:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 57 min |
| Oct 14, 9:18 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Gaines | 3 hr |
| Oct 15, 12:42 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster, Jeff Davis, Pecos | 3 hr |
| Oct 15, 3:24 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Glasscock and 5 more | 24 hr |
| Oct 15, 12:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson | 56 min |
| Oct 15, 4:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 53 min |
| Oct 15, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 61 min |
| Oct 15, 5:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reeves | 49 min |
| Oct 15, 5:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 44 min |
| Oct 15, 8:14 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 61 min |
| Oct 15, 2:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 57 min |
| Oct 15, 2:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 64 min |
| Oct 15, 4:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 59 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.