Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 316, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1997, 7:23 PM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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
- Jul 9, 1997, 7:23 PM CDT (00:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1997, 7:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ector County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 7:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Odessa, TX |
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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 Jul 9, 2:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 2:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 215 PM CDT WED JUL 9 1997 TSTMS FIRING WITHIN THTE RIDGE AXIS ACROSS HIER TERRAIN OF W TX AND SRN NM. WATER VAPOR AND VISIBLE IMAGERY INDICATE WAVE/MCV OVER NRN MEXICO IS LIFTING N WITH CONVECTIVE ENHANCEMENT NOTED JUST S OF THE BB RGN. OTHERWISE CLOSED CIRCULATION OVER SRN CA NOT EXPECTED TO HAVE DIRECT IMPACT. SCATTERED STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE MTNS THIS AFTERNOON/EVE AS AFOREMENTIONED WAVE/MCV SPREADS ENERGY N. GRIDDS SUPPORTS WEAK ENERGY LIFTING N THROUGH THE PB DURING THE NIGHT. DESPITE GOOD AGREEMENT AMONG GUIDANCE WITH SCATTERED POPS WILL OPT TO MAINTAIN WIDELY SCATTERED POPS N OF THE PECOS DUE TO UNCERTAINTIES ASSOCD WITH WAVE/MCV OVER N MEXICO. BY THURSDAY SURFACE TROF BECOMES BETTER ORGANIZED AND MOVES E AS UPPER TROF OVER THE WRN USA SHIFTS E TONIGHT/TMRW. THIS COMBINED WITH LOW-LEVEL CONVERGENCE INVOF TROF ALONG WITH CONTINUED PRESENCE OF MID-LEVEL THTE RIDGE AXIS SUGGEST WIDELY SCATTERED TSTMS TO REMAIN IN THE FCST. MAY SEE SOME PERIODS OF MOSTLY CLOUDY CONDITIONS DUE TO ANTICIPATED CONVECTION HOWEVER PARTLY CLOUDY SHOULD PREVAIL. MAF 68/91 20/20 CNM 67/91 30/20 MRF 60/85 40/30 P07 73/93 20/20 MURDOCH/YOUNG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 8:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 2 hr |
| Jul 9, 8:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Winkler | 3 hr |
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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.