Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1997, 4:22 PM CDT for Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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
- May 19, 1997, 4:22 PM CDT (21:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1997, 5:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Terrell County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 2184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 762 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
695 WUUS1 KMAF 192122 RRA SVRMAF TXC443-192210- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 422 PM CDT MON MAY 19 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 510 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WESTERN TEXAS ...CENTRAL TERRELL COUNTY AT 420 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR 22 MILES NORTHEAST OF SANDERSON OR 18 MILES NORTH OF DRYDEN MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS...AND CROSS HIGHWAY 349 NORTH OF DRYDEN BY 445 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. RRF/TWE
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 May 19, 2:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 19, 2:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 235 PM CDT (135 PM MDT) MON MAY 19 1997 THE COLD FRONT THAT RAPIDLY MOVED THROUGH THE PERMIAN BASIN AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO THIS MORNING HAS SINCE SLOWED AND WAS LOCATED VIA SATELLITE ROUGHLY ALONG A SOUTH OF ABILENE-FORT STOCKTON-MARFA LINE EXTENDING NORTHWESTWARD INTO HUDSPETH CNTY AT 19Z. KMAF RADAR DEPICTS A FEW STORMS DEVELOPING EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS OVER PARTS OF TERRELL AND BREWSTER COUNTIES IN AREAS OF MODERATE INSTABILITY AND SUFFICIENT PREFRONTAL LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CONVERGENCE. THIS COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO DRIFT SOUTHWARD TO ALONG THE RIO GRANDE OVERNIGHT BEFORE RETURNING SLOWLY NORTHWARD AS A WEAK WARM FRONT DURING THE DAY TUESDAY. EXCEPT FOR THE PREFRONTAL CONVECTION...OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS...LIGHT RAIN/DRIZZLE OVERNIGHT WITH AREAS OF FOG TOWARD MORNING ARE EXPECTED OVER MUCH OF THE AREA WITH THE COOLER TEMPS...UPSLOPE LOW LEVEL FLOW AND ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. THE HEAVIER RAINS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN EAST OF THE FORECAST AREAS WHERE PRECIP WATER TOTALS ARE HIGHER...BUT SEVERAL AREAS EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS CAN EXPECT RAINFALL TOTALS 1/4 TO 1/2 INCH OF RAINFALL OVERNIGHT. TEMPS AND POPS FOR TONIGHT AND TUESDAY SHOWN BELOW GENERALLY FOLLOW GUIDANCE NUMBERS. MAF 53/80 30/30 CNM 56/79 20/20 MRF 53/78 20/20 P07 62/83 30/20 FAGEN/MATHEWS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 19, 2:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-200500- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 248 PM CDT (148 PM MDT) MON MAY 19 1997 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS: ANDREWS CULBERSON GLASSCOCK MARTIN REAGAN UPTON BORDEN DAWSON HOWARD MIDLAND REEVES WARD BREWSTER ECTOR JEFF DAVIS PECOS SCURRY WINKLER CRANE GAINES LOVING PRESIDIO TERRELL AND IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO: EDDY LEA SYNOPSIS: A STRONG COLD FRONT OVER THE SOUTHERN PERMIAN BASIN AND LOWER PECOS VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE MOVING SOUTH INTO THE CONCHO VALLEY AND BIG BEND AREAS BY SUNSET MONDAY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF THIS COLD FRONT BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON...WITH CONVECTION DEVELOPING MAINLY ACROSS TERRELL...BREWSTER AND PECOS COUNTIES. ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...WITH THE MAIN THUNDERSTORM THREAT OF WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH AND SMALL HAIL IN AND NEAR THE STRONGER STORMS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. FAGEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 46 min |
| May 19, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 48 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.