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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 2, 2025Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at Jun 2, 2025, 1:21 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 2025, 1:21 PM MDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2025, 2:00 PM MDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Hail: 0.50 in
Wind: 40

County Eddy County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 189 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 199 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: 141 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -280 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2243 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 2, 11:59 AM MDT, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 11:59 AM MDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 1:21 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
121 PM MDT Mon Jun 2 2025

NMZ028-022000-
Eddy County Plains NM-
121 PM MDT Mon Jun 2 2025

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY THROUGH 200
PM MDT...

At 120 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms that
were scattered along a line extending from 9 miles south of Brantley
Lake State Park to Carlsbad to 8 miles east of Avalon. Movement was
northeast at 25 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch 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...
Carlsbad, Brantley Lake State Park, Avalon, Carlsbad North, Lake
Avalon, Otis, Cavern City Air Terminal, and Living Desert State Park.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3271 10427 3279 10400 3275 10386 3259 10383
      3232 10399 3227 10430 3234 10450 3240 10455
      3254 10444
TIME...MOT...LOC 1920Z 219DEG 22KT 3242 10442 3237 10424 3253 10410

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

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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 2, 1:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reeves	50 min
Jun 2, 3:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos, Reeves	43 min
Jun 2, 3:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	45 min
Jun 2, 5:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	32 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.