Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
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.
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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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Winkler | 47 min |
| May 28, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 47 min |
| May 28, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 32 min |
| May 28, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 46 min |
| May 28, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Gaines | 51 min |
| May 28, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 50 min |
| May 28, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Ward | 47 min |
| May 28, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 65 min |
| May 28, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 62 min |
| May 28, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 49 min |
| May 29, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 46 min |
| May 29, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 47 min |
| May 29, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 65 min |
| May 29, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 61 min |
| May 29, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving | 64 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.