Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1997, 4:17 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 48 min. 4 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 11, 1997, 4:17 PM MDT (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1997, 5:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 48 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 22:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 4:30 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Crossroads, NM | 60 mph wind gust reported by a rainfall observer. The winds were the result of a collapsing cell in a large cluster. |
| Jun 11, 4:45 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Lovington, NM | A large warehouse suffered heavy damage from microburst winds. The event was very localized as the manager of the warehouse was in an adjacent building and did not notice any extreme winds. No one was in the warehouse when it was hit by the winds. The manag |
| Jun 11, 4:50 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Jal, NM | |
| Jun 11, 5:06 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Jal, NM | A carport was picked up and thrown by downbursting winds from an HP Supercell RFD. Also a large, but dead, elm tree was uprooted. |
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 12:00Z, 10.3 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
- 1063 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1134 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 112218 RRA SVRMAF NMC025-112305- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 517 PM CDT (417 PM MDT) WED JUN 11 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 505 PM MDT (605 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO ...SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY AT 416 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR 29 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOBBS OR 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EUNICE MOVING EAST AT 15 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 WIN`DOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. HUBER/EARLE
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 11, 2:11 PM MDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 2:11 PM MDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 309 PM CDT WED JUN 11 1997 CURRENT SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATES SOME DEVELOPMENT IN SE NM ATTM. SURFACE ANALYSIS INDICATES A TROF EXTENDING FROM WESTERN OK SOUTHWEST TO NEAR KHOB. THIS TROF...WHICH SHOWS ON LATEST KMAF WSR-88D DATA...COULD SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR TRW DEVELOPMENT. ALSO... LATEST WSR-88D DATA INDICATES ANOTHER BOUNDARY (POSSIBLE DRYLINE WITH KINK DEWPOINT AT 52 AND KMAF AT 61) EXTENDS ALONG A KHOB-KERMIT-KFST LINE. WITH LI VALUES IN THE -8 TO -10 RANGE...ANY TRWS WHICH FORM TO THE WEST WILL MOVE INTO A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS AND COULD BECOME SEVERE. HOWEVER...A QUICK LOOK AT THE JAYTON AND WHITE SANDS PROFILERS INDICATE MOVEMENT WILL BE SLOW TOWARD THE EAST. THUS...FLASH FLOODING IS ALSO A CONCERN. MODELS PUSH TROF THROUGH FA BY TOMORROW MORNING WITH WINDY CONDITIONS TOMORROW AFTERNOON. TIMING OF THE TROF WILL BE THE CHALLENGE FOR POPS FOR THE SECOND AND POSSIBLY THE THIRD PERIODS. IF ETA AND NGM VERIFY...TROF COULD BE NORTH/SOUTH ACROSS OUR EASTERN FA TOMORROW AFTERNOON. THUS...ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED POPS MAY BE BEST FOR THESE ZONES DURING SECOND PERIOD. ALSO...EXPECT 700 MB TEMPS TO WARM TOMORROW AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...NOT SURE THIS CAP WILL COMPLETELY SUPPRESS ALL ACTIVITY IN THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS ESPECIALLY GIVEN STRONG SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW IN THE LOWER LEVELS AND OROGRAPHICS. THEREFORE... RECOMMEND INCLUDING SOME POPS FOR THIS AREA FOR TOMORROW AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AS FOR TEMPERATURES...GUIDANCE NUMBERS APPEAR ON TRACK FOR OVERNIGHT LOWS. HOWEVER...WITH TROF PUSHING THROUGH TOMORROW...BELIEVE KCNM NUMBERS TOO LOW. THANKS TO KLBB FOR COORDINATION! MAF 65/96 20/10 CNM 64/99 2 0/-- MRF 60/90 20/20 P07 70/92 10/10 HUBER/FRANCIS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 10:48 AM MDT, 5 hours 29 minutes before
NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-120500- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1136 AM CDT (1036 AM MDT) WED JUN 11 1997 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS: ANDREWS CULBERSON GLASSCOCK MARTIN REAGAN UPTON BORDEN DAWSON HOWARD MIDLAND REEVES WARD BREWSTER ECTOR JEFF DAVIS PECOS SCURRY WINKLER CRANE GAINES LOVING PRESIDIO TERRELL AND IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO: EDDY LEA SYNOPSIS: RESIDUAL LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND DAYTIME HEATING COMBINED WILL MAKE THE ATMOSPHERE VERY UNSTABLE LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP OVER THE NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN AND SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF BECOMING SEVERE...WITH THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. VERY HEAVY RAINS WITH LOCALIZED FLOODING IS ALSO A POSSIBILITY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY NEAR THE NEW MEXICAN AND WEST TEXAS MOUNTAINS. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS... ALTHOUGH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS MAY PRODUCING SOME FLASH FLOODING. THE SPOTTER NETWORK MAY REQUIRE ACTIVATION LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FOR THE WEST CENTRAL TEXAS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT LBBSPSSJT. FOR THE SOUTH PLAINS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT LBBSPSLBB. BOYD/HUBER
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 10:56 AM MDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before
NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-120500- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1156 AM CDT (1056 AM MDT) WED JUN 11 1997 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS: ANDREWS CULBERSON GLASSCOCK MARTIN REAGAN UPTON BORDEN DAWSON HOWARD MIDLAND REEVES WARD BREWSTER ECTOR JEFF DAVIS PECOS SCURRY WINKLER CRANE GAINES LOVING PRESIDIO TERRELL AND IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO: EDDY LEA SYNOPSIS: RESIDUAL LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND DAYTIME HEATING COMBINED WILL MAKE THE ATMOSPHERE VERY UNSTABLE LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP OVER THE NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN AND SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF BECOMING SEVERE...WITH THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. VERY HEAVY RAINS WITH LOCALIZED FLOODING IS ALSO A POSSIBILITY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY NEAR THE NEW MEXICAN AND WEST TEXAS MOUNTAINS. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...ALTHOUGH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS MAY PRODUCE SOME FLASH FLOODING. THE SPOTTER NETWORK MAY REQUIRE ACTIVATION LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FOR THE WEST CENTRAL TEXAS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT LBBSPSSJT. FOR THE SOUTH PLAINS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT LBBSPSLBB. BOYD/HUBER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 6:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 42 min |
| 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, 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
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.