Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 19, 1997, 7:03 PM CST for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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
- Feb 19, 1997, 7:03 PM CST (01:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 19, 1997, 7:35 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pecos County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:07 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 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 139 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 319 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 963 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 200105 RRA SVRMAF TXC371-200135- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 703 PM CST WED FEB 19 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 735 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WESTERN TEXAS ...CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY AT 702 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR 14 MILES EAST OF FORT STOCKTON MOVING WEST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN A.N EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. $$ BOYD/FAGAN/YOUNG
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 Feb 19, 6:26 PM CST, 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 19, 6:26 PM CST, 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 624 PM CST (524 PM MST) WED FEB 19 1997 QUICK ANALYSIS OF 6 PM MAF SOUNDING INDICATES LIFTED INDEX OF -3...WET BULB ZERO OF 6500 FT AND TROPOPAUSE AT 29400 FT. STEEP LAPSE RATES ARE INDICATED WITH 0C TEMPS AT 11K FT AND -20C TEMPS AT 20K FT. KMAF 88D AND LIGHTNING DATA AT 6 PM INDICATES MAIN THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY AND OVER THE BIG BEND REGION...WITH SMALL HAIL POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS AND STEEP LAPSE RATES. EXPECT THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT TWO HOURS OVER SE NM AND SW TX...BUT REMAINING BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. FAGEN/BOYD
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.