Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1997, 1:24 AM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. 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
- Jun 6, 1997, 1:24 AM MDT (07:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1997, 2:25 AM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lea County, NM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:25 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2163 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 060725 SVRMAF NMC025-060825- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 224 AM CDT (124 AM MDT) FRI JUN 6 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 225 AM MDT (325 AM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO ...NORTHERN LEA COUNTY AT 122 AM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR 11 MILES SOUTH OF TATUM MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... TATUM... GLADIOLA AND BRONCO. 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. 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 Jun 5, 8:35 PM MDT, 4 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 8:35 PM MDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 933 PM CDT THU JUN 5 1997 DAILY STORMS DECREASING ATTM WITH LOSS OF HEATING...KMAF 88D INDICATES BOUNDARY INDUCED STORMS IN LOCAL VICINITY DECREASING AS WELL. ATTM DON'T EXPECT STORMS WILL HAVE MUCH CHANCE TO REFIRE AS STRONG CAP IS IN PLACE PER KMAF 00Z SOUNDING. NONETHELESS WILL HOLD ON TO POPS AS A LOOK AT THE RUC INDICATES A STRENGTHENING LLJ OVERNIGHT WITH LOW LEVEL MSTR CONVERGENT AXIS FROM PB INTO SE NM. COORD WITH LBB AND WILL LET FCST RIDE. MURDOCH/PENDERGRAST
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 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.