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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 6, 2010Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2010, 7:14 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 61 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: Jun 6, 2010, 7:14 PM MDT (01:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2010, 8:15 PM MDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Eddy County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 235 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 4747 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 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 Jun 6, 5:42 PM MDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 5:42 PM MDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 6, 12:28 PM MDT, 6 hours 46 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
128 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 2010

NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075-
079>082-258-071830-
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-
128 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 2010 /1228 PM MDT SUN JUN 6 2010/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW
MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

A HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY
THROUGH MONDAY MORNING.

A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL COMBINE WITH AN UNSTABLE AIR MASS TO
GENERATE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...INCLUDING A FEW STRONG TO
SEVERE STORMS...LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. STRONG GUSTY
WINDS...HAIL...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL
BE THE MAIN THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

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, Jun 6, 3:31 PM MDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 3:50 PM MDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:05 PM MDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:48 PM MDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:58 PM MDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
558 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 2010

TXZ079-062315-
PRESIDIO VALLEY-
558 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 2010

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NICKEL SIZED HAIL AND 40 TO 55
MPH WINDS AFFECTING SOUTH CENTRAL PRESIDIO COUNTY UNTIL 615 PM CDT...

A THUNDERSTORM WITH HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WAS LOCATED OVER PRESIDIO AT
558 PM CDT...MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IN ADDITION TO HAIL AND STRONG WINDS... DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER... YOU
ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEEK SAFE SHELTER NOW.

&&

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 7:05 PM MDT, 9 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
805 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 2010

NMZ027-028-070130-
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS-
705 PM MDT SUN JUN 6 2010

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NICKEL SIZED HAIL AND 40 TO 55
MPH WINDS AFFECTING WEST CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY UNTIL 730 PM MDT...

A THUNDERSTORM WITH HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WAS LOCATED OVER OPEN
COUNTRY OF WEST CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY 15 MILES NORTH OF QUEEN
AT 703 PM MDT...MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

GUSTY WINDS... HAIL... HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE
POSSIBLE.

&&

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 3:03 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Winkler	57 min
Jun 7, 1:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis	27 min
Jun 7, 3:34 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Jeff Davis, Presidio	3 hr
Jun 7, 5:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	38 min
Jun 7, 5:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	14 min
Jun 6, 10:36 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Eddy	3 hr
Jun 6, 10:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	62 min
Jun 6, 11:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	55 min
Jun 7, 3:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	51 min
Jun 7, 4:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	61 min
Jun 7, 5:07 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Lea	3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2010 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.