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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 160, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 29, 1997Andrews County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1997, 8:07 PM CDT for Andrews County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 29, 1997, 8:07 PM CDT (01:07 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 1997, 9:10 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Andrews County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 29, 8:33 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Frankel City, TX
May 29, 8:47 PM CDT	Hail 1	Andrews, TX	The storm that hit Eunice, NM continued to move east across Frankel City and then into Andrews. The storm appeared to be a short line of only about 20 miles in length, but had a distinct leading-edge reflectivity gradient. The storm was also accelerating thr

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.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 57 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

071 
WUUS1 KMAF 300108 RRA
SVRMAF
TXC003-300210-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 910 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS

   ...ANDREWS COUNTY
 
AT 806 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 23 MILES WEST OF ANDREWS OR 9 MILES WEST OF FRANKEL
CITY MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... FRANKEL CITY...
FLOREY AND ANDREWS.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE
ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.



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, 4 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 3:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 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, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	65 min
May 29, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.