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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 289, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

November 2, 2024Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 2, 2024, 12:42 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 51 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: Nov 2, 2024, 12:42 PM MDT (18:42 UTC)
Expired: Nov 2, 2024, 1:33 PM MDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Eddy County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 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 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 206 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: 753 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 790 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 197 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.2

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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 Nov 2, 10:23 AM MDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 2, 10:23 AM MDT, 2 hours 19 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
Nov 2, 12:41 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF		64 min
Nov 2, 3:30 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF		60 min
Nov 2, 3:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	42 min
Nov 2, 3:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	46 min
Nov 2, 3:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	30 min
Nov 2, 5:36 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	24 min
Nov 2, 5:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	67 min
Nov 1, 7:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	54 min
Nov 1, 8:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Eddy	43 min
Nov 1, 9:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Lea	40 min
Nov 1, 10:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	66 min
Nov 2, 4:18 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Eddy	57 min
Nov 2, 5:13 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Eddy	32 min
Nov 2, 12:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	34 min
Nov 2, 1:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	37 min
Nov 2, 1:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy, Lea	62 min
Nov 2, 1:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Eddy, Lea	33 min
Nov 2, 2:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	40 min
Nov 2, 2:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Lea	37 min
Nov 2, 2:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	46 min
Nov 2, 2:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	36 min
Nov 2, 2:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Eddy	66 min
Nov 2, 2:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	47 min
Nov 2, 3:34 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MAF	Lea	11 min
Nov 2, 3:42 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MAF	Lea	18 min
Nov 2, 3:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy, Lea	58 min
Nov 2, 3:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	64 min
Nov 2, 4:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Lea	59 min
Nov 2, 4:49 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Lea	26 min
Nov 2, 5:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	42 min
Nov 2, 5:26 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Lea	3 hr

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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.