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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 363, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 10, 1997Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 10, 1997, 1:06 AM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 34 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 10, 1997, 1:06 AM MDT (07:06 UTC)
Expired: Oct 10, 1997, 1:40 AM MDT
In force: 34 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 07:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 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.

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: 243 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 4 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 100706 RRA
SVRMAF
NMC025-100740-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
206 AM CDT (106 AM MDT) FRI OCT 10 1997


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 140 AM MDT (240 AM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO

   ...NORTHWESTERN LEA COUNTY


AT 105 AM MDT... MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 27 MILES NORTHWEST OF TATUM OR 8 MILES NORTH OF
CAPROCK MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH.

THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS.

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.


FAGEN/PENDERGRAST

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 9, 7:52 PM MDT, 5 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 9, 7:52 PM MDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
852 PM CDT THU OCT 9 1997

CURRENT FORECASTS LOOK ON TRACK.  HOWEVER...MAY NEED TO LOWER POPS
ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE FA REST OF TONIGHT GIVEN CURRENT CONVECTIVE
TRENDS AND COVERAGE.

01Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS E-SE FLOW PREDOMINATING OVER FA WITH
DEWPOINTS IN THE 60S EAST OF MOUNTAINS.  WV IMAGERY SHOWING TROPICAL
CONNECTION CONTINUING OVER PORTIONS OF GULF COAST WITH MID/HIGH
LEVEL SUBSIDENCE DOMINATING MOST OF W TX ATTM.  KMAF 88D REFLECTIVITY
SHOWING A WEAKENING TREND IN REGARDS TO CONVECTION AND THIS
COINCIDES WELL WITH WARMING TOPS AS VIEWED BY LATEST IR LOOP. AREAL
COVERAGE CONTINUES TO DECREASE AND CURRENTLY IS BETWEEN 10 TO 20
PERCENT. WITH LOSS OF HEATING RECOMMEND LOWERING POPS TO WIDELY
SCATTERED SRN SECTIONS AND SCATTERED NRN SECTIONS  VWP
SHOWING ELY FLOW FROM SFC TO ABOUT 10K FT MSL.

EARLE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 9, 10:47 PM MDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1147 PM CDT THU OCT 9 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

555 PM     ODESSA                    TX   WIND DAMAGE
10/09/97   ECTOR                          SHINGLES BLOWN OFF AND THREE
                                          TENNIS LIGHT POLES BLOWN
                                          OVER ALONG 42ND STREET

632 PM     ODESSA                    TX   WIND DAMAGE
10/09/97   ECTOR                          14 POWER POLES KNOCKED DOWN
                                          ALONG LOOP 338

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.