Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1997, 6:53 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 42 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1997, 6:53 PM MDT (00:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1997, 7:35 PM MDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Eddy County, NM
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:25 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Artesia, NM | |
| Jun 10, 7:25 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Artesia, NM | |
| Jun 10, 7:40 PM MDT | Hail 2.75 | Artesia, NM |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 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
- 1689 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1252 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 110055 RRA SVRMAF NMC015-110135- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 753 PM CDT (653 PM MDT) TUE JUN 10 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 735 PM MDT (835 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO ...NORTHERN EDDY COUNTY AT 647 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF ARTESIA OR 13 MILES WEST OF ESPUELA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... ESPUELA AND ARTESIA. A REPORT OF A WALL CLOUD WAS ALSO RECEIVED IN THIS STORM BY A SPOTTER. 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. FAGEN/PENDERGRAST
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 10, 2:09 PM MDT, 4 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 2:09 PM MDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 308 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1997 LATEST SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATES LOW CLOUDS FINALLY LIFTING ACROSS MOST OF FA. SURFACE ANALYSIS INDICATES WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHERN FA. BELIEVE THIS BOUNDARY MAY SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR TRW ACTIVITY LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS SOME CONVERGENCE EVIDENT ALONG IT. OTHERWISE...SURFACE MOISTURE REMAINS WELL ENTRENCHED WITH DEWPOINTS RANGING FROM THE LOW 60S EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS TO THE LOW 70S AT SANDERSON. MODELS SHOW LITTLE CHANGE IN LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE THROUGH THE FIRST TWO PERIODS. DEWPOINTS REMAIN IN THE LOWER 60S TONIGHT AND TOMORROW ACROSS MOST OF FA. MODELS DO HINT AT SOME DRYING BEGINNING ON THURSDAY MORNING (48 HOURS) WITH SURFACE TROF PUSHING INTO WESTERN FA. ALSO...BY 48 HOURS...A 500 MB TROF ACROSS THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE NATION BRINGS SOME UPPER-LEVEL DIFFLUENCE OVER THE CENTRAL FA. WITH THE SURFACE TROF (DRYLINE) ACTING AS A FOCUS ON THURSDAY...TRW ACTIVITY MAY DEVELOP. FOR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW...BELIEVE ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED POPS BEST FOR MOST AREAS. LATEST KMAF 88D DATA INDICATES SOME ACTIVITY TRYING TO DEVELOP ACROSS BREWSTER COUNTY ATTM. APPEARS THIS ACTIVITY IS FORMING ALONG THE BOUNDARY IN THIS AREA. AS FOR TEMPERATURES...GUIDANCE LOWS LOOK ON TRACK GIVEN LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE REMAINING OVERNIGHT. GUIDANCE HIGHS TOMORROW FOR CENTRAL PB LOOK A LITTLE HIGH GIVEN THE EXPECTED RETURN OF LOW CLOUDS/FOG TONIGHT. THUS... HAVE REDUCED HIGHS FOR CENTRAL PB. ELSEWHERE...GUIDANCE LOOKS ON TRACK. THANKS TO KLBB FOR COORDINATION! MAF 64/88 20/20 CNM 63/94 10/00 MRF 58/91 20/20 P07 71/92 20/20 HUBER/EARLE"
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 3:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 50 min |
| Jun 11, 3:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 50 min |
| Jun 11, 4:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 48 min |
| Jun 11, 5:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 32 min |
| Jun 11, 5:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 51 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.