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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 29, 1997Reeves County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1997, 6:14 PM CDT for Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1997, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Reeves County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 158 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.

531 
WUUS1 KMAF 292315 RRA
SVRMAF
TXC389-300015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN TEXAS

   ...REEVES COUNTY
 
AT 611 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ORLA AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
IS ALSO LOCATED 17 MILES WEST OF PECOS. STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 10
MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE... ORLA...RED
BLUFF...AND ARNO.

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.



MURDOCH/HUBER

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, 2 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 3:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 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

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, 3:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos46 min
May 29, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos47 min
May 29, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves65 min
May 29, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving64 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.