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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 15, 1997Brewster County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1997, 7:27 PM CDT for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 48 min. 3 reports 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 15, 1997, 7:27 PM CDT (00:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 1997, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Brewster County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 15, 7:40 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Terlingua, TX	Wind damage occurred to several buildings on a ranch located on Taurus Mesa. Much of the damage was limited to corrugated metal that was strewn across the countryside. Rear-flank downdraft (RFD) winds were thought to have been the mechanism for the high wind
Jun 15, 7:50 PM CDT	Hail 4.5	Study Butte, TX	North of where the RFD winds caused damage, hail up to softball size smashed car windshields and pummelled a couple of houses. One gentleman, who was attempting to close a window, was injured when hail broke the window and caused several facial lacerations.
Jun 15, 8:15 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Study Butte, TX	Golfball size hail fell on the northern sections of Terlingua Ranch.

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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 238 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 4168 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 925 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.9
Supercell composite: 10.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 160028 RRA
SVRMAF
TXC043-160115-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
727 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN TEXAS

   ...SOUTHERN BREWSTER COUNTY
 
AT 723 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF TERLINGUA MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS BUT SHOULD PASS 10
MILES NORTH OF TERLINGUA ON HIGHWAY 118 BY 755 PM.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WIND INB 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, 4 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:58 PM CDT, 4 hours 29 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 15, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	47 min
Jun 15, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	46 min
Jun 15, 10:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Terrell	34 min
Jun 15, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	47 min
Jun 16, 12:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	48 min
Jun 16, 12:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	36 min
Jun 16, 1:44 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Terrell	3 hr
Jun 16, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	62 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.