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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 9, 1997Midland County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1997, 1:03 AM CDT for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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: May 9, 1997, 1:03 AM CDT (06:03 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 1997, 1:50 AM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Midland County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:05 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
May 8, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 18 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: 2593 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1718 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 090604 RRA
SVRMAF
TXC329-090650-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
103 AM CDT FRI MAY 9 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 150 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS

   ...SOUTHERN MIDLAND COUNTY
 
AT 1259 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS IN THE VICINITY OF MIDLAND MOVING
EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING BASEBALL SIZE
HAIL. ALSO...THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL.

THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS AND IS CURRENTLY
CROSSING HIGHWAY 1788.

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.



HUBER/BOYD
 

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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 May 9, 12:45 AM CDT, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 12:45 AM CDT, 18 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1245 AM CDT FRI MAY 9 1997

WITH FRONTAL BOUNDARY SLIDING SLOWLY SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE CENTRAL
PB ATTM...HAVE UPDATED LFP MAF FOR INCREASED POPS AND SLIGHTLY
HIGHER WINDS. LATEST WV LOOP INDICATING ANOTHER SHORT WAVE PUSHING
INTO WESTERN FA WITH WELL DEFINED DRY SLOT VISIBLE ACROSS NORTHERN
MEXICO.

HUBER/BOYD/MATHEWS

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 8, 9:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-059>063-067>070-075-090800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
954 PM CDT (854 PM MDT) THU MAY 8 1997

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 272 WILL BE IN EFFECT FROM 10
PM CDT UNTIL 3 AM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF WEST TEXAS:

ANDREWS...DAWSON...MITCHELL...BORDEN...HOWARD...SCURRY...GAINES...
MARTIN...ECTOR...PECOS...WINKLER...GLASSCOCK...REAGAN...CRANE...
UPTON...MIDLAND...AND WARD COUNTIES.

THIS SEVERE THUNDESTORM WATCH REPLACES WATCH NUMBER 271 .

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 269 HAS EXPIRED FOR EASTERN NEW
MEXICO. THIS WATCH INCLUDED EDDY AND LEA COUNTIES.

CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO...AND CABLE
TELEVISION OUTLETS FOR UPDATED INFORMATION OR WARNINGS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	50 min
May 8, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	45 min
May 8, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson	49 min
May 8, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	47 min
May 8, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	49 min
May 8, 8:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	32 min
May 8, 8:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	35 min
May 8, 9:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Gaines	49 min
May 8, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	46 min
May 8, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	46 min
May 9, 12:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	63 min
May 9, 12:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	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.