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 13, 2012, 12:13 AM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 17 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 13, 2012, 12:13 AM MDT (06:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2012, 12:30 AM MDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
County Lea County, NM
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:15 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 142 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.
148
WWUS84 KMAF 130613
SPSMAF
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
113 AM CDT SAT OCT 13 2012
NMZ029-033-TXZ045-130630-
GAINES-NORTHERN LEA COUNTY-CENTRAL LEA COUNTY-
1213 AM MDT SAT OCT 13 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AFFECTING
EAST CENTRAL LEA AND NORTHWESTERN GAINES COUNTIES UNTIL 1230 AM
MDT/130 AM CDT/...
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTH OF HUMBLE CITY AT
1213 AM MDT/113 AM CDT/...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
GUSTY WINDS... HAIL... HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE
POSSIBLE.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM MDT SATURDAY
MORNING/200 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING/ FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND
WEST TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3316 10306 3296 10306 3297 10300 3296 10296
3296 10295 3276 10327 3296 10330
TIME...MOT...LOC 0613Z 230DEG 25KT 3293 10317
$$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, 6:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Eddy | 24 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 |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in New Mexico, 2012Every special weather statement 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.