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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at Oct 21, 2015, 5:13 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 47 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 21, 2015, 5:13 PM MDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 21, 2015, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
County Eddy County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 596 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1493 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Oct 21, 4:35 PM MDT, 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 21, 4:35 PM MDT, 38 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 212 PM CDT WED OCT 21 2015 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-221915- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS- NORTHERN LEA COUNTY-CENTRAL LEA COUNTY-SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY-GAINES- DAWSON-BORDEN-SCURRY-ANDREWS-MARTIN-HOWARD-MITCHELL- VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR-REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS- LOVING-WINKLER-ECTOR-MIDLAND-GLASSCOCK-WARD-CRANE-UPTON-REAGAN- DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-PECOS-PRESIDIO VALLEY-MARFA PLATEAU- BIG BEND AREA-TERRELL-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- 212 PM CDT WED OCT 21 2015 /112 PM MDT WED OCT 21 2015/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO THROUGH TONIGHT. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. AN ISOLATED TORNADO CAN NOT BE RULED OUT AS WELL. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL THROUGH TONIGHT AND FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL IS EXPECTED OVERNIGHT IN THE PERMIAN BASIN WITH LESSER AMOUNTS ELSEWHERE. HEAVY RAINS COULD ALSO CAUSE SIGNIFICANT RISES IN SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS ACROSS THE AREA INCLUDING THE RIO GRANDE...COLORADO RIVER...PECOS RIVER...AND ASSOCIATED TRIBUTARIES OF THESE RIVERS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE FOCUS FOR HEAVY RAIN WILL SHIFT TO THE EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN AND LOWER TRANS PECOS THURSDAY. STORM TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS COULD EXCEED 4 INCHES IN SOME LOCATIONS...CONTINUING THE THREAT FOR FLASH FLOODNG AND RIVER FLOODING. THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING WITH THE PRIMARY THREAT AREA BEING THE PERMIAN BASIN AND LOWER TRANS PECOS. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE THURSDAY AS WELL AND PRODUCE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THERE IS A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SPOTTER ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. SPOTTERS CAN REPORT ANY FLOODING THAT MAY OCCUR TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES... AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN MIDLAND CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT /LOWER CASE/ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/MIDLAND
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 21, 11:26 AM MDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 150 PM CDT WED OCT 21 2015 TXZ061-211915- ECTOR TX- 150 PM CDT WED OCT 21 2015 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN ECTOR COUNTY UNTIL 215 PM CDT... AT 150 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER ODESSA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ODESSA...WEST ODESSA...ODESSA SCHELEMEYER FIELD AND NORTH COWDEN. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 20 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 111 AND 120. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && LAT...LON 3177 10230 3183 10258 3207 10260 3207 10231 TIME...MOT...LOC 1850Z 240DEG 49KT 3190 10235 12
Special weather statement, Oct 21, 5:13 PM MDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
513 PM MDT WED OCT 21 2015
NMZ027-028-220000-
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY NM-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS NM-
513 PM MDT WED OCT 21 2015
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN EDDY COUNTY UNTIL
600 PM MDT...
AT 512 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 14
MILES NORTH OF LINCOLN NATIONAL FOREST...OR 32 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
ARTESIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SEVEN RIVERS...BRANTLEY LAKE STATE PARK...HOPE AND SEVEN RIVERS
AIRPORT.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO.
LAT...LON 3252 10484 3286 10484 3293 10482 3277 10443
3238 10437 3240 10483 3244 10486
TIME...MOT...LOC 2312Z 229DEG 18KT 3252 10483The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 21, 12:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Ector | 34 min |
| Oct 21, 12:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Ector | 25 min |
| Oct 21, 2:05 PM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | MAF | Andrews, Dawson, Gaines, Loving, Martin, Ward and 1 more | 23 hr |
| Oct 21, 5:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Culberson | 67 min |
| Oct 20, 8:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 51 min |
| Oct 21, 11:26 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 49 min |
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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.