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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 288, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 19, 1997Winkler County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1997, 5:11 PM CDT for Winkler County, Texas. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report 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 19, 1997, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 1997, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Winkler County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 19, 5:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Kermit, TX	Microburst winds knocked down fences and blew a tree down in a city park.

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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 665 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -386 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1924 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 192212 RRA
SVRMAF
TXC495-192245-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
511 PM CDT THU JUN 19 1997

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

IN WESTERN TEXAS

   ...CENTRAL WINKLER COUNTY
 
AT 509 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF WINK OR IN THE VICINITY OF
KERMIT MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. THE CITY OF KERMIT IS IN THE PATH OF
THIS STORM.

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.


RB/EB

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 19, 2:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 2:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
233 PM CDT THU JUN 19 1997

HIGH TERRAIN CONVECTION DEVELOPING SW-NW AS TEMPS PUSH INTO THE
90S TO 100 PLUS AND AS LIS FALL TO MINUS 6. KMAF 88D INDICATES
TSTMS ARE QUICKLY BECOMING WIDELY SCATTERED AND EXPECT TO SEE A FEW
CELLS DEVELOP AS FAR E AS THE PECOS WHERE TEMPS CLIMB TO N105. GUSTY
WINDS APPEAR TO BE MAIN THREAT ASSOCD WITH SHRA/TSRA AS INVERTED-V
PROFILE IS EVIDENT AND AS WINDEX (USING 12Z KMAF SOUNDING) ESTIMATES
WINDS TO 73KTS...FURTHER E THREAT CONVECTION INITIATION IS
DIMINISHED BY COOLER TEMPS AND DRYING CONDITIONS. CONVECTION LIKELY
TO PERSIST TIL AROUND SUNSET AND WOULD INCLUDE WIDELY SCATTERED
POPS IN THE TP REGION AND EDDY CO. REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT SHOULD BE
QUIET. TMRW DRYLINE BECOMES BETTER ORGANIZED AS SURFACE LOW
STRENGTHENS IN WRN KS WITH PASSING 7H SHORTWV...EXPECT DRYLINE TO
BE INVOF KMAF. ATTM HESITANT TO INCLUDE POPS AS FAR E AS KMAF DUE TO
FURTHER INCREASES IN 7H TEMPS (14 DEGREE C)...FCST NEGATIVE
AREA...AND UNCERTAINTY IN REGARD TO DRYLINE POSITION. LOW-LEVEL
THERMAL RIDGE AND POSSIBILITY OF DRY AIR SUGGEST HOT TEMPS AGAIN
LIKELY ESPECIALLY FROM KMAF W.

MAF 70/100 -/-
CNM 68/104 20/0
MRF 57/95  20/0
P07 72/98  10/-

MURDOCH/WRINKLE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	33 min
Jun 19, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ward	46 min
Jun 19, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.