Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2012, 6:37 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2012, 6:37 PM MDT (00:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2012, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Eddy County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 6:50 PM MDT | HAIL 1 | 22 W Carlsbad, NM |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 2:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 1015 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2690 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
487
WUUS54 KMAF 130037
SVRMAF
NMC015-130130-
/O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0180.120613T0037Z-120613T0130Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
637 PM MDT TUE JUN 12 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...
* UNTIL 730 PM MDT
* AT 633 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 17
MILES SOUTHWEST OF SEVEN RIVERS...OR 27 MILES WEST OF CARLSBAD...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
WESTERN EDDY COUNTY...
CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3258 10429 3239 10421 3215 10432 3244 10482
3265 10479
TIME...MOT...LOC 0037Z 301DEG 13KT 3247 10467
$$1 follow-up statement
611
WWUS54 KMAF 130101
SVSMAF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
701 PM MDT TUE JUN 12 2012
NMC015-130130-
/O.CON.KMAF.SV.W.0180.000000T0000Z-120613T0130Z/
EDDY NM-
701 PM MDT TUE JUN 12 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM MDT
FOR CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY...
AT 700 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SEVEN RIVERS...OR ABOUT 20 MILES WEST
OF CARLSBAD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE...CENTRAL
EDDY COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3258 10429 3239 10421 3215 10432 3244 10482
3265 10479
TIME...MOT...LOC 0101Z 301DEG 13KT 3244 10457
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 6:15 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Lea | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 65 min |
| Jun 12, 7:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 62 min |
| Jun 12, 7:39 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Lea | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 7:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 35 min |
| Jun 12, 8:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 20 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.