Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 1997, 3:37 PM CDT for Pecos 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 21, 1997, 3:37 PM CDT (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 1997, 4:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pecos County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 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
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 837 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 21, 2:41 PM CDT, 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 21, 2:41 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 240 PM CDT WED MAY 21 1997 WATER VAPOR IMAGERY INDICATES SHRTWV ENERGY LIFTING NE ACROSS THE CWA. CONVECTION BEGINNING TO DEVELOP W OF FEATU
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 21, 10:40 AM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Presidio | 44 min |
| May 20, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Presidio | 51 min |
| May 21, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 49 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.