Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 2008, 11:21 PM MDT for Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 54 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
- Aug 17, 2008, 11:21 PM MDT (05:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2008, 12:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 188 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:21 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 nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 948 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KMAF 180521
SVRMAF
NMC015-025-180615-
/O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0252.080818T0521Z-080818T0615Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1121 PM MDT SUN AUG 17 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WEST CENTRAL LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...
NORTHEASTERN EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...
* UNTIL 1215 AM MDT
* AT 1116 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 19
MILES SOUTHWEST OF CAPROCK...OR 35 MILES EAST OF ROSWELL...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
MALJAMAR...
BUCKEYE...
HIGHWAY 380 IN WESTERN LEA COUNTY...
HIGHWAY 82 IN EASTERN EDDY AND WESTERN LEA COUNTIES...
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS... DEADLY CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN
HEAR THUNDER... YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEEK
SAFE SHELTER NOW.
LAT...LON 3269 10324 3249 10411 3296 10424 3298 10422
3297 10412 3298 10376 3337 10376 3344 10369
TIME...MOT...LOC 0519Z 330DEG 32KT 3318 10393
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 10:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 62 min |
| Aug 17, 11:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 65 min |
| Aug 18, 12:21 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 12:23 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 52 min |
| Aug 18, 12:25 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Lea | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 1:15 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 60 min |
| Aug 18, 2:21 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 54 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.