Severe Thunderstorm Warning 286, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Issued

Jun 16, 1997, 6:38 PM CDT (23:38 UTC)

Expired

Jun 16, 1997, 7:40 PM CDT

In force

62 min

Issued by

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Scurry County, TX

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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TTAA00 KMAF 162339 RRA
SVRMAF
TXC415-170040-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
638 PM CDT MON JUN 16 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 NORTHWESTERN TEXAS

   ...SCURRY COUNTY
 
AT 636 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR IN THE VICINITY OF SNYDER MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... HUDD.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK REFUGE FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSS*IBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY
FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.


YOUNG/HUBER

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 16, 2:17 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
216 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997

KMAF 88D INDICATES STORMS BEGINNING TO FIRE ALONG THE MTNS OF SRN NM
INVOF OF UPPER LOW. SURFACE DATA SUPPORTS SLOW DRYING TREND ACROSS W
TX/SE NM WITH DWPNTS DOWN INTO THE 30S AND 40S IN THE MTNS TO N50 AS
FAR E AS KMAF WITH EVOLVING DRYLINE FROM KMAF S TO W OF KP07...COLD
FRONT IS LOCATED INVOF KMAF. AS OF 18Z...INSTABILITY PER 12Z KMAF
MODIFIED SOUNDING AND ADAP INDICATES ONLY WEAK INSTABILITY WITH CAP
STILL IN PLACE. INSTABILITY IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE SOME HOWEVER AS
5H TEMPS COOL SIGNIFICANTLY AND AS ETA/NGM BRING BEST Q-FORCING INTO
THE PB LATE AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING. MSTR STILL A LIMITING FACTOR
ACROSS THE PB HOWEVER. CONTINUE TO LIKE THE IDEA OF HIGH-BASED
STORMS AND WILL LOOK FOR DWPNTS TO AT LEAST BE IN THE M40 TO N50
ACROSS MOST AREAS...EXCLUDING THE ERN TIER AND FAR SRN AREAS WHERE
BEST SEVERE THREAT IS FOUND. COORD WITH KLBB AND SPC AND A WW WILL
LIKELY BE ISSUED SHORTLY BUT WILL REMAIN E OF THE KMAF AREA DUE TO
MSTR CONSIDERATIONS. BY 03Z EXPECT ANY SEVERE THREAT WILL HAVE MOVED
E AS UPPER LOW CONTINUES TO MOVE E AND N. FRONTAL BOUNDARY TO LINGER
IN THE AREA OVERNIGHT AS W-NW MID-LEVEL FLOW NOT EXPECTED TO REACH
THE SURFACE. WITH EXIT OF SYSTEM AN UPPER RIDGE IS EXPECTED TO BUILD
INTO THE AREA HOLDING STORM TRACK WELL N .

MAF 60/92 20/0
CNM 60/93 10/0
MRF 52/88 -/0
P07 65/95 30/0

MURDOCH/GRIFFIN/FRAZAR

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