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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 176, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 4, 1997Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1997, 8:08 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 47 min. 3 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: Jun 4, 1997, 8:08 PM MDT (02:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 1997, 8:55 PM MDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Eddy County, NM

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 4, 8:35 PM MDT	Hail 1	Carlsbad, NM
Jun 4, 8:45 PM MDT	Hail 1.75	Loving, NM	Farms southeast of Loving were hit hard with cotton and oats being destroyed.
Jun 4, 8:45 PM MDT	Thunderstorm Wind 54	Loving, NM	Very intense severe thunderstorm pummelled Loving, especially the southeast part of town, with hail up to golfball size and 60-65 mph winds. Numerous windows were broken out of homes by the fast-moving hail. Also, tree damage ranged from being uprooted to lo

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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 206 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: 1432 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2244 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 050209 RRA
SVRMAF
NMC015-050255-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
908 PM CDT (808 PM MDT) WED JUN 4 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 855 PM MDT (955 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO

   ...SOUTHEASTERN EDDY COUNTY
 
AT 806 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CARLSBAD OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST
OF RED BLUFF MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... RED BLUFF AND MALAGA.

WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.


MURDOCH/PENDERGRAST

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 Jun 4, 1:04 PM MDT, 7 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 1:04 PM MDT, 7 hours 4 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
203 PM CDT WED JUN 4 1997

17Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS A VERY WEAK PRESSURE GRADIENT OVER THE
AREA WITH A POSSIBLE WEAK BOUNDARY ORIENTED NORTHWEST-SOUTHEAST FROM
THE EDWARDS PLATEAU TO THE SOUTH PLAINS MOVING IN A SOUTHERLY
DIRECTION. THIS BOUNDARY SHOWS UP NICELY ON THE LATEST VISIBLE
SATELLITE IMAGERY WITH CUMULUS ABOUNDING.  DRYLINE IN EXTREME
WESTERN NM WITH DEWPOINTS MAINLY IN THE 60S OVER THE CWA.  KMAF 88D
REFLECTIVITY SHOWING CONVECTION BEGINNING TO FIRE OVER THE DAVIS
MOUNTAINS.

MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH CONTINUING TO WEAKEN H5 RIDGE NEXT 36
HOURS.  LITTLE DYNAMICS EXPECTED NEXT TWO PERIODS AS DYNAMICS REMAIN
EAST AND WEST OF THE AREA.  HOWEVER... WITH WEAKENING CAP BELIEVE
STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO FIRE OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND MOVE SLOWLY
SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST.  AS A RESULT...GREATEST CHANCE OF CONVECTION
WILL BE NEAR THE MOUNTAINS.  AFOREMENTIONED BOUNDARY MAY ACT
AS ANOTHER FOCUS PRODUCE AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM THIS EVENING BUT
ONCE NIGHT FALLS EXPECT ALL ACTIVITY TO DIE QUICKLY AS LLJ LACKING.
WITH WEAK FLOW ALOFT AND THTE RIDGE OVER THE WESTERN PORTIONS WILL
HAVE TO MONITOR FOR POSSIBLE LOCALLY HEAVY R@AINFALL AND POSSIBLE
FLOODING.

AS FOR TEMPERATURES... WILL STICK VERY CLOSE TO PERSISTENCE TONIGHT
AND TOMORROW WITH A TOUCH OF GUIDANCE.

MAF  65/89  1-
CNM  66/90  21
MRF  57/86  11
P07  69/88  --

EARLE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 4, 3:20 PM MDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
420 PM CDT WED JUN 4 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

345 PM     FORT DAVIS                TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/04/97   JEFF DAVIS

348 PM     VALENTINE                 TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/04/97   JEFF DAVIS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 9:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	40 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.