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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 249, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 12, 1997Ector County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1997, 7:46 PM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report 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 12, 1997, 7:46 PM CDT (00:46 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 1997, 8:35 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Ector County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:47 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 12, 8:20 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 57Odessa, TX

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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 34 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 651 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
651 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3203 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 130048 RRA
SVRMAF
TXC135-130135-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
746 PM CDT THU JUN 12 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 835 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS

   ...ECTOR COUNTY
 
AT 745 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 22 MILES WEST OF ODESSA OR 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF
JUDKINS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... PENWELL...
GOLDSMITH AND ODESSA.

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.


EARLE/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 12, 3:03 PM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 3:03 PM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
301 PM CDT (201 PM MDT) THU JUN 12 1997

SURFACE OBSERVATIONS AT 18Z INDICATE A WEAK TROUGH/DRYLINE EXTENDING
FROM EAST OF AMA THROUGH JUST WEST OF LBB...THROUGH BGS TO EAST OF
P07.  TEMPERATURES ARE WARMING NICELY DUE TO DOWNSLOPE WINDS WEST OF
THE EASTWARD MOVING DRYLINE WITH CNM AT 97F AT 1PM MDT. INSTABILITIES
AND CAP VALUES LOWER WEST TO EAST...WITH LIS -6 AT MAF INCREASING TO
-10 EAST OF BGS.  SURFACE DEW POINT VALUES AT MAF RAPIDLY DROPPED
FROM 19C TO 09C IN LESS THAN TWO HOURS AS THE DRYLINE PASSED
THROUGH...AND WESTERLY WINDS AT KGDP ARE STEADILY ON THE INCREASE.

WATER VAPOR IMAGERY INDICATES AN UPSTREAM MID/UPPER LEVEL IMPULSE
OVER NEW MEXICO WHICH SHOULD MOVE ACROSS WEST TEXAS TONIGHT.  CURRENT
INDICATIONS ARE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ALONG DRYLINE OVER OR
EAST OF THE FAR EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN IN RESPONSE TO LOW LEVEL
MOISTURE CONVERGENCE ALONG THE DRYLINE...INSTABILITIES AND INCREASING
WINDS ALOFT.  OTHERWISE...DRY AND WINDY CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST INTO
FRIDAY.  ALL POPS BELOW ARE ZERO.

MAF  66/97
CNM  66/93
MRF  58/84
P07  69/98

FAGEN/MATHEWS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane51 min
Jun 12, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland45 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.