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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 360, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 7, 1997Eddy County, New Mexico

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-10-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 205 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-10-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 7, 6:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy49 min
Oct 7, 7:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy33 min
Oct 7, 9:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy47 min

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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.