Severe Thunderstorm Warning 265, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Issued

Jun 14, 1997, 4:57 PM CDT (21:57 UTC)

Expired

Jun 14, 1997, 5:45 PM CDT

In force

48 min

Issued by

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Area

Whole counties

Counties Ector County, TX, Midland County, TX

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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 142158 RRA
SVRMAF
TXC135-329-142245-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
457 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS

   ...EASTERN ECTOR COUNTY
   ...MIDLAND COUNTY
 
AT 456 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR IN THE VICINITY OF ODESSA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... WARFIELD... ODESSA
AND MIDLAND.

WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDlOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.


EARLE

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 14, 2:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
218 PM CDT (118 PM MDT) SAT JUN 14 1997

DEEP LAYER MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL STORM
BLANCA IS PRODUCING SCATTERED CONVECTION OVER THE TRANS PECOS REGION
OF WEST TEXAS NORTHWARD INTO EDDY COUNTY OF NEW MEXICO.  CONVECTION
IS ALSO BEGINNING TO FIRE OVER THE NORTHERN/CENTRAL PERMIAN BASIN
ASSOCIATED WITH LIFTED INDICIES OF -10...CAPE VALUES UP TO 5000 J/KG
AND HIGH DEW POINTS...SJT AND ABI DEW POINTS HAS RISEN TO 74F WITH A
HEAT INDEX OVER 100F AT 19Z.

DUE TO CURRENT HIGH AFTERNOON INSTABILITIES...THE THREAT OF SEVERE
WEATHER REMAINS INTO THE EVENING HOURS...DIME SIZED HAIL HAS RECENTLY
BEEN REPORTED NEAR CNM.  THE FORECAST CONCERN WILL THEN QUICKLY SHIFT
TO THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAINS THIS EVENING WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF
FLOODING OVERNIGHT AS THE CONVECTION POSSIBLY EVOLVES INTO A MCS.
SATELLITE IMAGERY CONTINUES TO INDICATE PRECIP WATER VALUES OVER 2
INCHES UPSTREAM OVER OLD MEXICO...DRT SOUNDING AT 12Z INDICATED
PRECIP WATER VALUES OVER 1.75 INCHES...AND KMAF RADAR WIND PROFILES
INDICATE TROPICAL SOUTHERLY WINDS EXTENDING TO 500MB.  MODELS ALSO
SHOW A WEAK MID/UPPER LEVEL TROUGH MOVING ACROSS WEST TEXAS
OVERNIGHT...WITH THE ENHANCED LIFT RESULTING IN SOME AREAS OF TWO
INCH RAINS WITH ISOLATED AREAS UP TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN BY SUNRISE
SUNDAY...EXCEEDING CURRENT FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE THRESHOLDS.

FOR SUNDAY...UPPER LEVEL LOW OVER NEVADA WILL PUSH SOUTHEASTWARD INTO
NEW MEXICO...IMPROVING VERTICAL WIND PROFILES WHICH MAY ENHANCE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POSSIBILITIES FOR SUNDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING.

MAF  70/90   70/30
CNM  70/93   60/10
MRF  63/86   50/20
P07  78/92   60/20

FAGEN/BRITE/EARLE

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.