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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 259, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 20, 2010Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 20, 2010, 9:56 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 64 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 20, 2010, 9:56 PM MDT (03:56 UTC)
Expired: Oct 20, 2010, 11:00 PM MDT
In force: 64 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 03:56 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 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: 48 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2832 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 121 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 20, 1:46 PM MDT, 8 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 20, 1:46 PM MDT, 8 hours 10 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 20, 10:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson	64 min
Oct 21, 1:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	54 min
Oct 21, 2:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Ward	53 min
Oct 21, 2:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Upton	54 min
Oct 21, 2:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Upton	42 min
Oct 21, 2:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos, Reeves, Ward	49 min
Oct 21, 3:20 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Upton	55 min
Oct 21, 3:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Ward	60 min
Oct 21, 3:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Upton	59 min
Oct 21, 3:48 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Crane, Upton	42 min
Oct 21, 4:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	56 min
Oct 21, 4:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan, Upton	49 min
Oct 21, 4:31 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Upton	45 min
Oct 21, 4:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	61 min
Oct 21, 5:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Gaines, Winkler	62 min
Oct 20, 9:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	55 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.