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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 256, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 15, 2006Eddy County, New Mexico

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2006-10-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 288 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 2006-10-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 196 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
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

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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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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 15, 6:34 AM MDT, 17 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 14, 6:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPresidio62 min
Oct 14, 7:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster57 min
Oct 14, 9:18 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFGaines3 hr
Oct 15, 12:42 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBrewster, Jeff Davis, Pecos3 hr
Oct 15, 3:24 AM MDTFlash Flood WatchMAFAndrews, Borden, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Glasscock and 5 more24 hr
Oct 15, 12:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCulberson56 min
Oct 15, 4:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves53 min
Oct 15, 5:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines61 min
Oct 15, 5:26 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFReeves49 min
Oct 15, 5:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos44 min
Oct 15, 8:14 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea61 min
Oct 15, 2:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy57 min
Oct 15, 2:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy64 min
Oct 15, 4:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea59 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.