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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

September 15, 2023Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 15, 2023, 10:58 PM MDT for Lea 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 15, 2023, 10:58 PM MDT (04:58 UTC)
Expired: Sep 15, 2023, 11:45 PM MDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 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 04:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 15, 4:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 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: 1339 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1473 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 3.1

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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 Sep 15, 5:14 PM MDT, 5 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 15, 5:14 PM MDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 15, 4:46 PM MDT, 6 hours 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 15, 5:48 PM MDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 15, 6:36 PM MDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 15, 7:00 PM MDT, 3 hours 58 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
Sep 15, 6:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Brewster	39 min
Sep 15, 6:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson, Jeff Davis, Reeves	62 min
Sep 15, 7:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Terrell	45 min
Sep 15, 7:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson, Reeves	61 min
Sep 16, 12:28 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Yoakum	47 min
Sep 16, 1:15 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Gaines	45 min
Sep 16, 1:26 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	64 min
Sep 16, 2:22 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Gaines	3 hr
Sep 16, 2:25 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Dawson, Gaines	50 min
Sep 16, 2:40 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson, Gaines	3 hr
Sep 16, 2:40 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Borden	50 min
Sep 16, 2:43 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	47 min
Sep 16, 2:52 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Scurry	38 min
Sep 16, 3:22 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Martin	38 min
Sep 16, 3:26 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Borden, Howard, Mitchell, Scurry	64 min
Sep 16, 3:27 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Andrews	48 min
Sep 16, 3:44 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Borden, Scurry	3 hr
Sep 16, 4:21 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Mitchell	39 min
Sep 16, 4:24 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Mitchell, Scurry	51 min
Sep 16, 4:26 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Mitchell, Reagan	49 min
Sep 16, 4:34 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Borden, Glasscock, Howard, Mitchell, Scurry	3 hr
Sep 16, 5:00 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Ector	45 min
Sep 16, 5:23 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Ector, Midland	3 hr
Sep 16, 11:33 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Brewster	27 min
Sep 15, 10:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	49 min
Sep 15, 11:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	46 min
Sep 16, 1:29 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Lea	46 min
Sep 16, 2:01 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	44 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.