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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 10, 1997Andrews County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 1997, 5:28 PM CDT for Andrews County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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: Apr 10, 1997, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 1997, 6:25 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Andrews County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 10, 2:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 57 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: 265 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -245 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 579 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 102228 RRA
SVRMAF
TXC003-102325-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
528 PM CDT THU APR 10 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 625 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS

   ...ANDREWS COUNTY
 
AT 520 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 22 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ANDREWS OR 15 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF FRANKEL CITY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... FRANKEL CITY AND
FLOREY.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE
ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

$$

FAGEN/MURDOCH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 9, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis	34 min
Apr 9, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	46 min
Apr 9, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	49 min
Apr 10, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	65 min
Apr 10, 5:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Gaines	36 min
Apr 10, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Dawson	60 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.