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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 445, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 15, 2025Culberson County, Loving County, Reeves County, Texas; Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2025, 6:20 PM CDT for Culberson County, Loving County, Reeves County, Texas; Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 40 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: Jun 15, 2025, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Eddy County, NM, Culberson County, TX, Loving County, TX, Reeves County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:22 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.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 15, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 253 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -396 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3878 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 15, 5:41 PM CDT, 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 5:41 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 15, 3:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
253 PM MDT Sun Jun 15 2025

NMZ027-028-152130-
Eddy County Plains NM-Guadalupe Mountains of Eddy County NM-
253 PM MDT Sun Jun 15 2025

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN EDDY COUNTY THROUGH
330 PM MDT...

At 252 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong
thunderstorms along a line extending from 9 miles north of Hope to 11
miles west of Seven Rivers Airport to 15 miles east of Lincoln
National Forest. Movement was east at 15 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and penny size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Artesia, Hope, Brantley Lake State Park, Seven Rivers Airport,
Lincoln National Forest, Artesia Municipal Airport, Atoka, Dayton,
and Lakewood.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3296 10443 3262 10429 3225 10433 3223 10485
      3231 10485 3258 10484 3296 10484
TIME...MOT...LOC 2052Z 266DEG 12KT 3294 10476 3261 10462 3238 10464

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH

KLG

Local storm report, Jun 15, 4:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
446 PM CDT Sun Jun 15 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0415 PM     Tstm Wnd Gst     2 W Artesia             32.85N 104.47W
06/15/2025  M66 MPH          Eddy               NM   AWOS

            AWOS station KATS Artesia.

&&

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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
Jun 15, 2:17 PM CDT	Dust Storm Advisory	MAF	Andrews, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Martin, Midland	118 min
Jun 15, 3:18 PM CDT	Dust Storm Advisory	MAF	Andrews, Crane, Ector, Gaines, Loving, Reeves and 2 more	87 min
Jun 15, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson	43 min
Jun 15, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Culberson	60 min
Jun 15, 3:46 PM CDT	Dust Storm Advisory	MAF	Lea	59 min
Jun 15, 3:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Eddy	37 min
Jun 15, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Eddy	65 min
Jun 15, 4:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Eddy	3 hr
Jun 15, 5:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Eddy	3 hr
Jun 15, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Eddy, Lea	62 min

Nearby

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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.