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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 25, 1997Reagan County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 1997, 2:17 AM CDT for Reagan County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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: Apr 25, 1997, 2:17 AM CDT (07:17 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 1997, 3:05 AM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Reagan County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:19 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 25, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 91 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.

721 
WUUS1 KMAF 250717 RRA
SVRMAF
TXC383-250805-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
217 AM CDT FRI APR 25 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 305 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS

   ...SOUTHWESTERN REAGAN COUNTY
 
AT 215 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BIG LAKE OR 8 MILES SOUTH OF
TEXON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... TEXON... SANTA
RITA... BEST AND BIG LAKE.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFETY...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

$$

JP/RB

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 Apr 24, 7:49 PM CDT, 6 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 24, 7:49 PM CDT, 6 hours 28 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
747 PM CDT THU APR 24 1997

AFTER COORDINATION WITH SPC/LBB...WILL CANCEL TORNADO WATCH NUMBER
194 FOR SOUTHWEST TX. SEE SPSMAF FOR DETAILS. TORNADO WATCH NUMBER
193 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NRN TWO TIERS OF COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM CDT.

LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE STILL SCANT OVER SOUTHERN ZONES. STRONG UPPER JET
PUSHING EXTENSIVE MID/HIGH CLOUDS AHEAD OF IT INTO FAR SOUTHWEST
ZONES...NEARLY ELIMINATING WHAT IS LEFT OF INSOLATION TODAY. LATEST
RUC SHOWS IMPRESSIVE UPPER DIVERGENCE WITH JET SPREADING OVER FA
AFTER 03Z. SURFACE COLD FRONT PUSHING SOUTH THROUGH NRN FA ATTM AS
HOB HAS COOLED TO 54F. THIS STRONG BAROCLINIC ZONE (NEARLY 30F
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MAF AND LBB) HAS BEEN FOCUS FOR TSRA OF MODERATE
INTENSITY. AM CONCERNED ABOUT HEAVY RAIN NORTHERN ZONES TONIGHT AS
H8 FLOW IS PROGGED TO BACK AS IT ADVECTS DWPTS AOA 10C INTO THIS
AREA. COMBINATION OF ISENTROPIC LIFT AT LOW LEVELS AND UPPDER LVL
DIVERGENCE SHOULD KEEP A GOOD CHC OF TSRA NRN ZONES OVERNIGHT.

TJT

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 24, 9:02 PM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes before

NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-250235-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
901 PM CDT (801 PM MDT) THU APR 24 1997

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 193 HAS EXPIRED FOR THE NORTHEASTERN PERMAIN
BASIN...
...NO WATCHES OR WARNINGS ARE CURRENTLY IN EFFECT FOR THE PERMIAN
BASIN...SOUTHWEST TEXAS...OR FAR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...

AT 845 PM CDT...MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER THE NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN
...SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...AND PARTS OF THE TRANS-PECOS. BECAUSE
THESE STORMS HAVE REMAINED RELATIVELY WEAK AND DISORGANIZED FOR THE
LAST COUPLE HOURS...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 193 WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE
AT 9 PM CDT.

NO WATCHES OR WARNINGS ARE CURRENTLY IN EFFECT. HOWEVER...
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA ARE STILL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY
HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.

TJT

Local storm report, Apr 25, 12:58 AM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1258 AM CDT (1158 PM MDT) FRI APR 25 1997

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

345 PM     TATUM                     NM   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/97   LEA

420 PM     TATUM                     NM   0.88 INCH HAIL
04/24/97   LEA                            NICKEL-SIZED HAIL COVERED
                                          GROUND

1130 PM    FORT STOCKTON             TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/97   PECOS

1130 PM    FORT STOCKTON             TX   WIND DAMAGE
04/24/97   PECOS                          POWER LINES DOWN...WINDOWS
                                          BROKEN

1125 PM    10 S JAL                  NM   0.88 INCH HAIL
04/24/97   LEA                            NICKEL HAIL AT STATE LINE
                                          ON HIGHWAY 18

1125 PM    10 N WINK                 TX   0.88 INCH HAIL
04/24/97   WINKLER                        NICKEL HAIL ON TX/NM STATE
                                          LINE ON HIGHWAY 18

1145 PM    5 S HOBBS                 NM   0.88 INCH HAIL
04/24/97   LEA                            NICKEL HAIL LASTED UNTIL
                                          1215 AM CDT

1218 PM    5 S ANDREWS               TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/25/97   ANDREWS

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, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Winkler	44 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, 2:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	46 min

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.