Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 273, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1997, 6:37 PM CDT for Glasscock County, Texas. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 1997, 6:37 PM CDT (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1997, 7:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Glasscock County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 1499 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1370 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
247 WUUS1 KMAF 142338 SVRMAF TXC173-150025- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 637 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 725 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS ...EASTERN GLASSCOCK COUNTY AT 636 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR 6 MILES EAST OF GARDEN CITY MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS...AND WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 87 BY 700 PM. 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. RRF/TWE
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 14, 2:19 PM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:19 PM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
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
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 5:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-142320- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 528 PM CDT (428 PM MDT) SAT JUN 14 1997 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR REEVES...WINKLER..WARD AND LOVING COUNTIES OF WEST TEXAS. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR EDDY AND LEA COUNTIES OF NEW MEXICO. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 430 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SCURRY...BORDEN...GAINES...MITCHELL...HOWARD...MARTIN...ANDREWS... DAWSON...ECTOR...MIDLAND...GLASSCOCK...CRANE...UPTON AND REAGAN COUNTIES UNTIL 8 PM CDT.
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 6:31 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-150020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 630 PM CDT (530 PM MDT) SAT JUN 14 1997 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 435 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS: TERRELL...REAGAN...GLASSCOCK...HOWARD...BORDEN...SCURRY...MITCHELL... AND PECOS. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR GAINES...DAWSON...ANDREWS...MARTIN...LOVING...WINKLER...ECTOR... MIDLAND...UPTON...CRANE AND WARD COUNTIES. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREAS. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS...YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 47 min |
| Jun 14, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 35 min |
| Jun 14, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 51 min |
| Jun 14, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 51 min |
| Jun 14, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Upton | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Howard | 51 min |
| Jun 14, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 6:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Howard | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 51 min |
| Jun 14, 6:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Scurry | 2 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.