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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 29, 1997Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1997, 3:29 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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 29, 1997, 3:29 PM CDT (20:29 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1997, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
46 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 20:32 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 12:00Z, 8.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1997-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 391 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1997-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
391 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-260 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1021 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
147 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 292029 RRA
SVRMAF
TXC371-292115-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
329 PM CDT THU MAY 29 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN TEXAS

   ...WESTERN PECOS COUNTY
 
AT 327 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 37 MILES WEST OF FORT STOCKTON MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS...AND WILL REMAIN
WEST OF HIGHWAY 67 AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 10.

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/TJT

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 29, 3:15 PM CDT, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 3:15 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED POPS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
315 PM CDT (215 PM MDT) THU MAY 29 1997

SEE SWODY1 FOR GOOD SYNOPSIS OF SVR WX THREAT OVR FA. SVR TSRA
ALREADY DVLPD IN DAVIS MTNS ATTM. EXPECT SVR TSRA TO DVLP INVOF
INSTABILITY AXIS OVER SE NM IN THE NEXT COUPLE HRS. THIS SHOULD
PROPAGATE SE INTO REST OF NRN FA (SEE SPSMAF). AGREE WITH LBB THAT
LCL HVY RAIN PSBL GIVEN GOOD LOLVL MSTR. FRONT OVER KS TO PUSH S
THROUGH FA FRI AS WRN USA RDG AMPLIFIES...BRINGING NLY FLOW ALOFT
OVER FA. WILL KEEP POPS GOING INTO 2ND PERIOD AS FRONT SHOULD HAVE
PLENTY OF MSTR AHEAD OF IT TO WORK WITH.

MAF  63/91  4/3
CNM  61/92  4/3
MRF  55/85  2/1
P07  66/90  2/3

TJT

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 29, 11:21 AM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-300500-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1120 AM CDT (1020 AM MDT) THU MAY 29 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: THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP EARLY THIS AFTERNOON
OVER THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS OF TEXAS. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE
BRIEFLY SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING LARGE HAIL. LATER THIS
AFTERNOON...AROUND 4 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP
OVER SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS. SOME OF THESE
STORMS SHOULD BECOME SEVERE AS THEY MOVE SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MPH
THROUGH THE NORTHERN OUTLOOK AREA...GENERALLY NORTH OF A FORT DAVIS
- FORT STOCKTON - BIG LAKE LINE. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE
OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL...DESTRUCTIVE WINDS...AND LOCALIZED
FLASH FLOODING.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

TJT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFWinkler47 min
May 28, 7:23 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFEctor47 min
May 28, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews32 min
May 28, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWinkler46 min
May 28, 8:09 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFGaines51 min
May 28, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor50 min
May 28, 8:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Ward47 min
May 28, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews65 min
May 28, 9:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos62 min
May 28, 9:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane49 min
May 29, 2:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFJeff Davis46 min
May 29, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos47 min
May 29, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves65 min
May 29, 6:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves61 min
May 29, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving64 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.