Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Issued

Jun 7, 1997, 8:03 PM CDT (01:03 UTC)

Expired

Jun 7, 1997, 8:50 PM CDT

In force

47 min

Issued by

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Jeff Davis County, TX

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 230 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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TTAA00 KMAF 080104 RRA
SVRMAF
TXC243-080150-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
803 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 850 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN TEXAS

   ...WESTERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY
 
AT 758 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 38 MILES WEST OF FORT DAVIS OR 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
VALENTINE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... VALENTINE.

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.


TWE/TJT

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 7, 3:34 PM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED FOURTH LINE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
320 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 1997

SHWRS/TSTMS DVLPG ATTM EXTREME WRN JEFF DAVIS CO WITH OTHER TSTMS MOVG
NEWD ACR EXTREME NWRN EDDY CO NM. OTRW BULK OF CNVTV ACTVTY WELL W OF
FA ACR S CNTRL/SWRN NM. 20Z SFC ANALYSIS INDCS ELY/SELY FLOW CONTG WITH
ABNDT (NR 60 DEG F DWPNTS) MSTR. GRADUAL BINOVC E MTNS XPCD DURG NEXT
FEW HRS. FOCUS FOR CNVTN THIS EVE THOUGH WILL BE W OF PECOS RIVER WHERE
OROGRAPHICS/DIFFLUENT FLOW ALF AHD OF SWRN U.S. UPR LOW ENHANCES LIFT.
ADAP LI/S ARND MINUS 4 OVR CNTRL/ERN PERMIAN BASIN ATTM WITH LI/S APCHG
MINUS 8 OVR FAR W TX. WITH THIS PATTERN AND LACK OF SFC BNDRY BELIEVE
CNVTN THIS EVE WILL BE PRIMARILY ACR WRN SECTIONS AND WILL KEEP CHC POPS
MAF VCNTY FOR CONTINUITY. A FEW SVR TSTMS POSSIBLE THIS EVE PER SWODY1
AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS MAY OCCUR THOUGH MID-LVL WNDS INCRG WITH TIME.
WITH SFC FLOW BECMG MORE SELY TNGT XPC LOW CLDS TO DVLP/ADVECT ACR AREA
E MTNS AFT MIDNIGHT. WITH UPR LOW LIFTING NEWD SUN...NEG TILT SYS ALG
WITH STRONGLY DIFFLUENT FLOW ALF AND PROGD CAPES APCHG 2000 J/KG...
BETTER CHC OF TSTMS SUN AFTN/NGT E OF MTNS. SOME SVR TSTMS POSSIBLE
PER SWODY2 BUT XPCD CPLD COVER MAY LIMIT DEGREE OF INSTABILITY TO
PRECLUDE MENTION ATTM. PERSISTENCE APPRS BEST TEMP FCST.

BF

MAF   64/81   30/40
CNM   64/85   50/30
MRF   58/81   40/30
P07   67/86   30/40

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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.