Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 2012, 5:53 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 52 min. 2 reports 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
- Apr 9, 2012, 5:53 PM MDT (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 2012, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Eddy County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 180 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 5:53 PM MDT | HAIL 1 | 10 Nw Carlsbad, NM | 1/2 INCH TO 1 INCH HAIL |
| Apr 9, 6:02 PM MDT | HAIL 1 | 17 Nw Carlsbad, NM | 1/2 INCH TO 1 INCH HAIL,6 MILES WEST OF BRANTLY LAKE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 4:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -303 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1056 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
299 WUUS54 KMAF 092353 SVRMAF NMC015-100045- /O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0050.120409T2353Z-120410T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 553 PM MDT MON APR 9 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... * UNTIL 645 PM MDT * AT 547 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 11 MILES WEST OF CARLSBAD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES WEST OF CARLSBAD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... CARLSBAD... AVALON... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS... DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER... YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEEK SAFE SHELTER NOW. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3253 10403 3216 10439 3239 10481 3260 10449 TIME...MOT...LOC 2349Z 285DEG 22KT 3245 10440 $$
2 follow-up statements
434 WWUS54 KMAF 100016 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 616 PM MDT MON APR 9 2012 NMC015-100045- /O.CON.KMAF.SV.W.0050.000000T0000Z-120410T0045Z/ EDDY NM- 616 PM MDT MON APR 9 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM MDT FOR CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY... AT 553 PM MDT TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF CARLSBAD REPORTED HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. AT 602 PM MDT TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF CARLSBAD REPORTED HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. AT 612 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CARLSBAD NORTH...OR ABOUT NEAR CARLSBAD...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 18 MILES WEST OF CARLSBAD...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE...CARLSBAD NORTH...CARLSBAD AND AVALON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS... DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. REMEMBER... IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER... YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEEK SAFE SHELTER NOW. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3253 10403 3216 10439 3239 10481 3260 10449 TIME...MOT...LOC 0014Z 274DEG 23KT 3244 10427 $$
076 WWUS54 KMAF 100045 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 645 PM MDT MON APR 9 2012 NMC015-100055- /O.EXP.KMAF.SV.W.0050.000000T0000Z-120410T0045Z/ EDDY NM- 645 PM MDT MON APR 9 2012 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... AT 645 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAD WEAKENED. THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... ALTHOUGH THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS PASSED... PONDING OF WATER WILL LIKELY CONTINUE ON SOME ROADWAYS. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN CAUTIOUS AND BE PREPARED TO SLOW DOWN IF WATER IS ENCOUNTERED TO PREVENT HYDROPLANING AND LOSS OF VEHICLE CONTROL. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3253 10403 3216 10439 3239 10481 3260 10449 TIME...MOT...LOC 0016Z 274DEG 23KT 3244 10425 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 4:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 56 min |
| Apr 9, 4:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 54 min |
| Apr 9, 5:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2012Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2012
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.