Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2016, 4:23 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 37 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
- May 29, 2016, 4:23 PM MDT (22:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2016, 5:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Eddy County, NM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 187 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 4:25 PM MDT | HAIL 1 | 2 Ne Carlsbad, NM | REPORTED NEAR HWY62 NE OF CARLSBAD. |
| May 29, 4:25 PM MDT | HAIL 1.5 | 2 N 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 1377 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 789 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -2.2
The text
As transmitted.
203 WUUS54 KMAF 292223 SVRMAF NMC015-292300- /O.NEW.KMAF.SV.W.0113.160529T2223Z-160529T2300Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 423 PM MDT SUN MAY 29 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO... * UNTIL 500 PM MDT * AT 423 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR OTIS...OR NEAR CARLSBAD...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL. SOURCE...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS. IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CARLSBAD...CARLSBAD NORTH AND OTIS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING. && LAT...LON 3235 10424 3246 10425 3265 10392 3234 10379 TIME...MOT...LOC 2223Z 258DEG 20KT 3241 10416 HAIL...1.00IN WIND...<50MPH $$ 05
1 follow-up statement
271
WWUS54 KMAF 292256
SVSMAF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
456 PM MDT SUN MAY 29 2016
NMC015-292305-
/O.EXP.KMAF.SV.W.0113.000000T0000Z-160529T2300Z/
EDDY NM-
456 PM MDT SUN MAY 29 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 500 PM MDT...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO.
LAT...LON 3235 10424 3246 10425 3265 10392 3234 10379
TIME...MOT...LOC 2253Z 258DEG 20KT 3241 10416
$$
05The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Eddy | 43 min |
| May 29, 2:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Eddy | 45 min |
| May 29, 2:52 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| May 29, 2:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Eddy | 46 min |
| May 29, 3:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 9 min |
| May 29, 3:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Eddy | 46 min |
| May 29, 3:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Eddy | 47 min |
| May 29, 4:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 39 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.