Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 265, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2009, 4:26 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 33 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
- Jul 6, 2009, 4:26 PM MDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2009, 4:59 PM MDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Eddy County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 357 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
- 280 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -234 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Jul 6, 2:14 PM MDT, 2 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 2:14 PM MDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 6, 12:11 PM MDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 111 PM CDT MON JUL 6 2009 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-071815- 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- 111 PM CDT MON JUL 6 2009 /1211 PM MDT MON JUL 6 2009/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT...MAINLY ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND THE WESTERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS. ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND BRIEF...HEAVY RAINFALL. AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO OVERNIGHT...A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...MAINLY NORTH OF A CARLSBAD HOBBS LINE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO MOUNTAINS...THE MARFA PLATEAU...AND THE BIG BEND REGION ON TUESDAY. ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. 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 44
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 4:18 PM MDT, 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 518 PM CDT MON JUL 6 2009 NMZ027-028-062300- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS- 418 PM MDT MON JUL 6 2009 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT... THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR WEST CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY. AT 414 PM MDT...AN INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CHAVES COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL CROSS OVER THE EDDY COUNTY AND CHAVES COUNTY BORDER WITHIN THE NEXT 10 MINUTES. WIND GUSTS NEAR 50 MPH...HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF MARBLES...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. AS THIS THUNDERSTORM INCREASES...SEVERE WEATHER MAY DEVELOP RAPIDLY. PEOPLE IN WEST CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 5:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 40 min |
| Jul 6, 5:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 51 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.