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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 8, 1997Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1997, 12:00 AM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. 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
Jun 8, 1997, 12:00 AM MDT (06:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1997, 1:05 AM MDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Eddy County, NM

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 7, 10:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1330 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -15 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1330 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1163 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 080601 RRA
SVRMAF
NMC015-080705-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
100 AM CDT (1200 AM MDT) SUN JUN 8 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 105 AM MDT (205 AM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO

   ...EASTERN EDDY COUNTY
 
AT 1158 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 5 MILES EAST OF LOVING OR 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF MALAGA
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS.

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.


SVG/TAH

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 7, 8:16 PM MDT, 3 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 8:16 PM MDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
916 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 1997

SVR TSRA CONTINUE OVER FAR NW FA...WITH A GENERAL DECREASE SEEN OVER
DAVIS MTNS ATTM. GIVEN STRONG VERTICAL WIND SHEAR SEEN ON WSM
PROFILER AND AREA SOUNDINGS...EXPECT STORMS TO STAY ORGANIZED ENOUGH
FOR SVR THREAT TO CONTINUE OVER NEXT FEW HOURS (SEE LATEST WWAMKC).
WILL STICK WITH CURRENT FCSTS...AND WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR AND
UPDATE AS NECESSARY INVOF SVR WX.

TJT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 7:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy47 min
Jun 8, 3:43 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea62 min

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.