Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Issued

Jun 11, 1997, 5:03 PM MDT (23:03 UTC)

Expired

Jun 11, 1997, 5:35 PM MDT

In force

32 min

Issued by

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Lea County, NM

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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TTAA00 KMAF 112304 RRA
SVRMAF
NMC025-112335-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
603 PM CDT (503 PM MDT) WED JUN 11 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 535 PM MDT (635 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO

   ...SOUTHEASTERN LEA COUNTY
 
AT 501 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 26 MILES NORTH OF WINK OR 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF JAL
MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE IN THE VICINITY OF JAL.

WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDbOWS. 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

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 52 minutes earlier.

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

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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.