Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1997, 3:43 AM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 62 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, 3:43 AM MDT (09:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1997, 4:45 AM MDT
- In force
- 62 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 09:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 9.7 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
- 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.
855 WUUS1 KMAF 080944 RRA SVRMAF NMC025-081045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 443 AM CDT (343 AM MDT) SUN JUN 8 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 AM MDT (545 AM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO ...SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY AT 342 AM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR 36 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOBBS OR 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EUNICE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... EUNICE AND JONES CITY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. TAH/SVG
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 8, 2:35 AM MDT, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 2:35 AM MDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 334 AM CDT SUN JUN 8 1997 LATEST KMAF 88D DATA INDICATES ACTIVITY IN SOUTHEAST NM IS PULSING. TRW MOVING INTO ANDREWS COUNTY HAS INTENSIFIED DURING THE LAST 20 MINUTES. MODELS INDICATE THIS AREA HAS BEST UPPER-LEVEL DIFLUENCE IN THE WIND FIELD. THUS...WOULD EXPECT ACTIVITY TO CONTINUE FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT 2 HOURS. MODELS CONTINUE A WEAKLY DEFINED SURFACE TROF/CONVERGENCE ZONE ACROSS NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS THROUGH 48 HOURS. THUS...BELIEVE TODAY AND TONIGHT WILL BE SIMILAR TO LAST 24 HOURS. AGREE WITH KLBB DISCUSSION...CONTINUE POPS AS IN PREVIOUS PACKAGE FOR MOST OF TEXAS ZONES DURING FIRST TWO PERIODS. ALSO...WOULD RECOMMEND CONTINUING POPS FOR SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO AS IN PREVIOUS PACKAGE. TEMPERATURE NUMBERS REPRESENT A MIX OF AVN AND NGM NUMBERS. THANKS TO KLBB FOR COORDINATION! MAF 81/63 40/40 CNM 84/57 30/20 MRF 82/53 30/20 P07 83/68 40/40 HUBER/GRIFFIN
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, 12:00 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 65 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.