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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 186, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 23, 2019Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2019, 10:32 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2019, 10:32 PM MDT (04:32 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2019, 11:15 PM MDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Lea County, NM

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 147 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2315 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 4.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 23, 5:46 PM MDT, 4 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 5:46 PM MDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 23, 12:37 PM MDT, 9 hours 55 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 23, 8:29 PM MDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 23, 9:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 23, 9:48 PM MDT, 44 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 8:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Yoakum	31 min
May 23, 9:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Cochran	15 min
May 24, 3:09 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Yoakum	51 min
May 24, 12:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	42 min
May 24, 12:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos	62 min
May 24, 1:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos	64 min
May 24, 1:53 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	37 min
May 24, 2:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Terrell	40 min
May 24, 2:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	64 min
May 24, 2:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Pecos, Terrell	63 min
May 24, 3:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Terrell	36 min
May 24, 3:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Terrell	44 min
May 24, 3:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	67 min
May 24, 3:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	36 min
May 24, 3:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	42 min
May 24, 3:53 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	3 hr
May 24, 4:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	39 min
May 24, 4:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Terrell	42 min
May 24, 4:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Upton	41 min
May 24, 4:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Upton	27 min
May 24, 4:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	64 min
May 24, 4:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	45 min
May 24, 5:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Upton	13 min
May 24, 5:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	61 min
May 23, 9:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Lea	57 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.