Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 10:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 7:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 47 min |
| Jun 8, 3:43 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.