Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Issued

Apr 3, 1997, 7:06 PM CST (01:06 UTC)

Expired

Apr 3, 1997, 7:40 PM CST

In force

34 min

Issued by

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Area

Whole counties

Counties Dawson County, TX, Martin County, TX

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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TTAA00 KMAF 040108 RRA
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TXC115-317-040140-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
706 PM CST THU APR 3 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 740 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS

   ...SOUTHEASTERN DAWSON COUNTY
   ...NORTHEASTERN MARTIN COUNTY
 
AT 705 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAMESA OR 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
ACKERLY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... ACKERLY.

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.

$$

EARLE

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 3, 3:37 PM CST, 3 hours 29 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
335 PM CST THU APR 3 1997

MODELS IN EXCELLENT AGREEMENT IN MOVEMENT OF WESTERN UPPER LOW.
GOES 9 LOOP SHOWS THAT LOW HAS INDEED STARTED TO NUDGE EWD.  ALSO
SYS COMING INTO PAC NW WILL HELP TO KICK SW U.S. LOW TO EAST.  PROGS
SHOW SURFACE TROF/PAC COLD FNT ALONG NM/TX BDR AT 24 HOURS...WITH
SHORT WAVE PASSING BORDER AT 36 HOURS.  WOULD EXPECT SOME CLEARING
AFTER FRONT PASSES AND BEFORE SURFACE HEATING DEVELOPS MORE CLOUDS
UNDER COOLING TEMPS ALOFT FRIDAY AFTERNOON.  SO MAY HAVE SUN IN
MORNING...BUT BROKEN STRATOCUMULUS LAYER IN AFTERNOON.

WITH CLOUDINESS HANGING AROUND FOR MUCH OF FRIDAY...THINK THAT
STRONGEST WINDS MAY HOLD OFF TILL SATURDAY WHEN GRADIENT IS STILL
TIGHT...BUT DEEPER MIXING WILL PREVAIL UNDER SUNNY SKIES.

POPCORN STORMS DEVELOPING IN TROPICAL AIR MASS THIS AFTERNOON.  FEW
REPORTS OF 1/4 TO 1/2 INCH HAIL SO FAR.  MODELS INDICATE THAT MID
LEVELS WILL BE SLOWLY DRYING OUT THIS EVENING...THEN A FASTER DRY
PUNCH IS DUE INTO REGION LATE TONIGHT...BEST PUNCH IN SOUTHERN
HALF OF AREA.  LOOKING AT WV LOOP...THINK THAT MODELS MAY BE
UNDER-ESTIMATING RH GRADIENT OUT WEST.  WHEN DRY PUNCH COMES IN
COULD GET STRONGER (SPRING-TYPE VERSUS TROPICAL) STORMS AFTER
MIDNIGHT.  SO THERE WILL PROBABLY BE A TRANSITION FROM HEAVY RAIN
TROPICAL STORMS THIS EVENING TO MORE OF A SEVERE TYPE STRUCTURE LATE
TONIGHT.

      TEMPS  POPS
MAF   58 72  70 0
CNM   55 6n5  60 0
MRF   47 58  50 0
P07   58 74  70 0

MATHEWS

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