Alert archive / New Mexico / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at Oct 12, 2012, 6:21 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 12, 2012, 6:21 PM MDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 12, 2012, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
County Eddy County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 181 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 1378 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1156 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
071 WWUS84 KMAF 130021 SPSMAF SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 721 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2012 NMZ028-130045- EDDY COUNTY PLAINS- 621 PM MDT FRI OCT 12 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR A STRONG THUNDERSTORM AFFECTING NORTH CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY UNTIL 645 PM MDT... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF LOCO HILLS AT 620 PM MDT...MOVING NORTH AT 20 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM MDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3295 10433 3285 10393 3262 10410 3269 10434 TIME...MOT...LOC 0020Z 197DEG 17KT 3275 10421 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 7:45 PM MDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 7 hr |
| Oct 12, 8:36 PM MDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 11 hr |
| Oct 12, 9:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Yoakum | 31 min |
| Oct 13, 3:15 AM MDT | High Wind Warning | MAF | 15 hr | |
| Oct 13, 1:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Scurry | 35 min |
| Oct 12, 6:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 29 min |
| Oct 12, 7:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 66 min |
| Oct 12, 7:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 27 min |
| Oct 12, 8:24 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 36 min |
| Oct 12, 8:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 27 min |
| Oct 12, 8:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 25 min |
| Oct 12, 9:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 37 min |
| Oct 13, 12:13 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 17 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.