Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 360, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 7, 1997, 8:06 PM MDT for Eddy 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
- Oct 7, 1997, 8:06 PM MDT (02:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 1997, 9:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Eddy County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 080206 RRA SVRMAF NMC015-080305- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 906 PM CDT (806 PM MDT) TUE OCT 7 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 905 PM MDT (1005 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO ...EDDY COUNTY AT 805 PM MDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH...CURRENTLY LOCATED IN WESTERN EDDY COUNTY...WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST THROUGH THE COUNTY AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF STORMS ARE... HOPE... CARLSBAD...LAKEWOOD AND ARTESIA. 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 WA>TER COVERS THE ROAD. 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 Oct 7, 1:56 PM MDT, 6 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 7, 1:56 PM MDT, 6 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 255 PM CDT TUE OCT 7 1997 LATEST SATELLITE IMAGERY AND KMAF WSR-88D DATA INDICATING THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS. BELIEVE UPSLOPE AND AFTERNOON HEATING THE DRIVING FORCES HERE. ELSEWHERE...SKIES ARE BECOMING PARTLY CLOUDY. LATEST LDS DATA SHOWS INTENSITY OF SYSTEM MOVING INTO EASTERN AZ ATTM. MODELS ARE IN VERY GOOD AGREEMENT. EXPECT MOSTLY CLOUDY CONDITIONS TO RETURN LATER TONIGHT AS SOUTHEASTERLY FLOW CONTINUES. BEST CHANCES FOR POPS WILL BE AFTER MIDNIGHT AS MAJOR SHORT-WAVE TROF MOVES INTO WESTERN FA. BEST FORCING WILL BE NORTH OF FA. HOWEVER...GIVEN THE STRENGTH OF THIS SYSTEM...EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ALONG THE SURFACE CONVERGENCE ZONE MAINLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. SKIES WILL CLEAR TOMORROW AFTERNOON FOR MOST OF WESTERN ZONES. HOWEVER...EASTERN EDGE OF FA COULD SEE SOME TRW ACTIVITY CONTINUING INTO TOMORROW AFTERNOON. IN SHORT...TIMING NOT THE BEST FOR SEVERE WX...BUT SCATTERED TRWS ARE LIKELY ACROSS MOST OF CENTRAL FA AFTER MIDNIGHT. AS FOR TEMPERATURES...FWC GUIDANCE LOOKS GOOD FOR FIRST TWO PERIODS. THANKS TO KLBB FOR COORDINATION! MAF 63/79 40/10 CNM 60/75 30/-- MRF 53/75 20/10 P07 65/85 40/20 HUBER/GRIFFIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 6:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 49 min |
| Oct 7, 7:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 33 min |
| Oct 7, 9:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 47 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.