Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 279, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1997, 6:53 PM CDT for Presidio County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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 15, 1997, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1997, 7:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Presidio County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 291 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1203 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
017 WUUS1 KMAF 152354 RRA SVRMAF TXC377-160040- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 653 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 740 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WESTERN TEXAS ...SOUTHERN PRESIDIO COUNTY AT 652 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF PRESIDIO OR 7 MILES SOUTH OF SHAFTER MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO PASS JUST NORTH OF PRESIDIO. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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 15, 2:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 255 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997 SHWRS HAVE DVLPD DURG THE PAST HR NR THE TX MTNS WITH MSTLY 20-30 DBZ ECHOES OCCURRING ATTM ACR REEVES/PECOS COS. TOPS REMAIN BLO 30K FT WITH MOVMT 240/30KT. 19Z SFC ANLYS/ADAP INDCS SWLY FLOW ACR FA WITH DWPNTS LWR-MID 50S NRN AREAS AND LWR 60S S AND NO DISCERNABLE BNDRYS. UPR LVL LOW CNTRD OVR SRN NV/EXTRM NWRN AZ WITH MODELS IN GOOD AGRMT WITH THE LOCATION AND STRENGTH OF LOW. BELIEVE CNVTN ATTM RESULT OF INCRG MID LVL WNDS AS SWRN U.S. LOW STARTING TO EJECT EWD. SHWRS/TSTMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACR ENTIRE FA TNGT. WOULD FAVOR WRN AREAS EARLY THIS EVENING THOUGH WITH BETTER CHCS ACR CNTRL/ERN SECTIONS LATER AS ACTVTY MOVS INTO BETTER LOW LVL MSTR. PROGS INDC LOW LVL FLOW E OF MTNS TO BACK SMWHT THIS EVE THUS LOW CLDS POSSIBLE MAINLY E OF ERN NM/TX BDR AFT MIDN. PER COORD WITH LBB WILL INCL ERN TIER OF COS (BORDEN-REAGAN) WITH SVR MENTION WHERE BETTER CAPES/LOW LVL FLOW PROGD. AS UPR LOW ACCELERATES EWD MON...UPWARD FORCING BECOMES ESTABLISHED ESPECIALLY OVR NRN/ERN SECTIONS. SFC LOW FCST OVR NWRN TX MON AFTN WITH DRYLN NR AMA-LBB-MAF LINE PER SWODY2. UPSHOT IS THAT SVR POTENTIAL MORE FAVORABLE MON AFTN ACR ERN PERMIAN BASIN AS MID LVL COOLG WITH THE APCHG TROF AND STG DAYTIME HEATING CREATE A VERY UNSTBL AMS AS LI/S FCST BETWEEN MINUS 8-10 AND CAPES NEAR 3000 J/KG. POPS WILL REFLECT BETTER CHCS E...AND ACTVTY LINGERING ERN SECTIONS MON NGT. BF MAF 65/91 40/30 CNM 61/91 40/20 MRF 56/84 30/20 P07 67/92 60/40
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 33 min |
| Jun 15, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Presidio | 47 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.