Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1997, 7:00 PM CDT for Dawson County, Texas. It was in force for 65 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, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1997, 8:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dawson County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 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 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 1725 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2054 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
709 WUUS1 KMAF 300001 RRA SVRMAF TXC115-300105- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 700 PM CDT THU MAY 29 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 805 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS ...DAWSON COUNTY AT 659 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR IN THE VICINITY OF LAMESA MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... KLONDIKE... TENMILE AND MIDWAY. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK REFUGE FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. 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, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 3:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 60 min |
| May 29, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 63 min |
| May 29, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 62 min |
| May 29, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 63 min |
| May 29, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 64 min |
| May 29, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 33 min |
| May 29, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 61 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.