Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 330, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 1997, 5:21 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 59 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
- Aug 12, 1997, 5:21 PM MDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 1997, 6:20 PM MDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lea County, NM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -285 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1680 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 122322 RRA SVRMAF NMC025-130020- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 621 PM CDT (521 PM MDT) TUE AUG 12 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 620 PM MDT (720 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO ...LEA COUNTY AT 517 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOBBS OR 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONUMENT MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO PASS WEST OF HOBBS AND NEAR MONUMENT. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. GM/JF
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 Aug 12, 12:40 PM MDT, 4 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 12:40 PM MDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 139 PM CDT TUE AUG 12 1997 18Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS STALLED COLD FRONT OVER SOUTH PLAINS WITH VARIABLE WINDS OVER MUCH OF THE CWA. DEWPOINTS REMAIN IN THE 60S EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS. WV IMAGERY SHOWING SHEAR AXIS CONTINUING OVER OUR NORTHERN PORTIONS WITH VISIBLE SHOWING ABUNDANT MID LEVEL CLOUDS AS A RESULT OF ENHANCED LIFT. KMAF 88D REFLECTIVITY SHOWING WIDELY SCATTERED STORMS OVER THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS BUT NOT NEAR THE COVERAGE OF YESTERDAY. MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT NEXT 36 TO 48 HOURS WITH UPPER HIGH CONTINUING OVER THE FA. LITTLE IF ANY UPWARD MOTION OVER THE FA AS DYNAMICS REMAIN WELL NORTH. WITH THIS IN MIND WILL KEEP WIDELY SCATTERED POPS OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND VICINITY. HOWEVER... MAY SEE AN ISOLATED STORM THIS EVENING IN VICINITY OF AFOREMENTIONED SHEAR AXIS AND STALLED FRONT BUT MID CLOUDS HAVE CUT OUT SOME NEEDED INSOLATION AND CAP REMAINS FAIRLY STRONG ATTM. ELSEWHERE... CAP SHOULD HOLD STRONG. ALSO... AFOREMENTIONED STATIONARY FRONT MAY BRUSH OUR NORTHERN PORTIONS BEFORE WASHING OUT TONIGHT/TOMORROW BUT SHOULD MAKE LITTLE DIFFERENCE. WILL STICK CLOSE TO PERSISTENCE AND WARMER MOS GUIDANCE THIS GO AROUND AS AVN/ETA SEEM A LITTLE TOO COOL. MAF 71/95 1- CNM 70/97 21 MRF 61/87 21 P07 74/93 00 EARLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 3:43 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 3 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.