Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Issued

May 29, 1997, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)

Expired

May 29, 1997, 6:15 PM CDT

In force

65 min

Issued by

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Reeves County, TX

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 292210 RRA
SVRMAF
TXC389-292315-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN TEXAS

   ...WEST AND SOUTH REEVES COUNTY
 
AT 508 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 36 MILES WEST OF PECOS OR 18 MILES WEST OF TOYAH
MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... TOYAH.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFETY...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.



MURDOCH/HUBER

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 29, 3:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.

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

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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.