Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 307, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2009, 4:22 PM MDT for Eddy County, 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
- Aug 9, 2009, 4:22 PM MDT (22:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2009, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 351 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
- 97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -360 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2128 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 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 Aug 9, 3:07 PM MDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 3:07 PM MDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 12:07 PM MDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 107 PM CDT SUN AUG 9 2009 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-101815- 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- 107 PM CDT SUN AUG 9 2009 /1207 PM MDT SUN AUG 9 2009/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... MAINLY FOR AREAS WEST OF A SEMINOLE TO FORT STOCKTON LINE. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF GUSTY WINDS UP TO 35 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 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, Aug 9, 3:32 PM MDT, 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 432 PM CDT SUN AUG 9 2009 TXZ058-074-092200- DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS- 432 PM CDT SUN AUG 9 2009 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT... THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL JEFF DAVIS AND SOUTH CENTRAL REEVES COUNTIES. AT 430 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BALMORHEA...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. WIND GUSTS NEAR 50 MPH...HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF MARBLES...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THIS STORM PASSES YOUR AREA. PEOPLE IN NORTH CENTRAL JEFF DAVIS AND SOUTH CENTRAL REEVES COUNTIES SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 3:37 PM MDT, 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 437 PM CDT SUN AUG 9 2009 NMZ029-092200- NORTHERN LEA COUNTY- 337 PM MDT SUN AUG 9 2009 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT... THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR NORTHWESTERN LEA COUNTY. AT 336 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER WEST CENTRAL LEA COUNTY OR ABOUT 17 MILES WEST OF MCDONALD ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 457...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. WIND GUSTS NEAR 50 MPH...HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF SMALL MARBLES...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. PEOPLE IN NORTHWESTERN LEA COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS. SEEK SHELTER IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR LOCATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 3:56 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Lea | 79 min |
| Aug 9, 4:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 64 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.