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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 24, 1997Winkler County, Texas; Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 1997, 11:06 PM CDT for Winkler County, Texas; Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 44 min. 3 reports 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: Apr 24, 1997, 11:06 PM CDT (04:06 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 1997, 11:50 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lea County, NM, Winkler County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:10 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
Apr 24, 11:25 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Jal, NM
Apr 24, 11:25 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Kermit, TX
Apr 24, 11:45 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Hobbs, NM

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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 105 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: 64 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2486 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 250406 RRA
SVRMAF
NMC025-TXC495-250450-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1106 PM CDT (1006 PM MDT) THU APR 24 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1050 PM MDT (1150 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO

   ...SOUTHEASTERN LEA COUNTY

IN WESTERN TEXAS

   ...NORTHERN WINKLER COUNTY
 
AT 1000 PM MDT (1100 PM CDT)...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED
BY MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR 21 MILES NORTH OF WINK OR 4 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF BENNETT MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... BENNETT AND JAL.

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.

$$

TJT/MEY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 24, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	50 min
Apr 24, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	42 min
Apr 24, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	49 min
Apr 24, 11:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Winkler	35 min
Apr 25, 12:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	48 min
Apr 25, 12:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Upton	48 min
Apr 25, 1:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	49 min
Apr 25, 2:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	48 min
Apr 25, 2:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1997 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1997 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.