Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Issued

May 14, 1997, 6:11 PM CDT (23:11 UTC)

Expired

May 14, 1997, 7:00 PM CDT

In force

49 min

Issued by

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Dawson County, TX

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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TTAA00 KMAF 142312 RRA
SVRMAF
TXC115-150000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
611 PM CDT WED MAY 14 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS

   ...SOUTHERN DAWSON COUNTY
 
AT 609 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 7 MILES SOUTH OF LAMESA OR 2 MILES NORTH OF TENMILE
MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...SPARENBERG...AND
POSSIBLY PATRICIA.

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.



TWE/TJT

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 14, 2:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
215 PM CDT WED MAY 14 1997

17Z SURFACE ANALYSIS INDICATED COOL FRONT EXTENDED FROM SOUTH OF
KEPZ... TO NEAR KMAF AND EASTWARD TO NEAR KABI.  APPEARS LOW
PRESSURE STILL OVER EXTREME WESTERN TEXAS WITH TROUGH EAST OF KMAF
ATTM.  DEWPOINTS SOUTH OF THE FRONT AND EAST OF THE TROUGH REMAIN
BETWEEN 65 AND 70.  LATEST ADAP DATA SHOW MOST UNSTABLE AIR OVER
CONCHO VALLEY WITH LI/S AROUND MINUS 10.  HOWEVER...AIRMASS STRONGLY
CAPPED IN THIS AREA.  KMAF 88D VWP SHOWING MOSTLY SOUTHERLY FLOW
JUST ABOVE SURFACE.  ONLY A FEW SHOWERS OVER MOUNTAINS ATTM AS SEEN
ON LATEST REFLECTIVITY PRODUCT.

UPPER DYNAMICS REMAIN WEAK THROUGH TONIGHT BUT GIVEN PROXIMITY OF
FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND DAYTIME HEATING BELIEVE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF POPS
WARRANTED AT LEAST THROUGH EVENING OVER PERMIAN BASIN.  MAY SEE A
FEW CONTINUE OVER THE MOUNTAINS AS WELL.  TOMORROW AFTERNOON SEEMS
THE MUCH BETTER DAY FOR THUNDERSTORMS... SOME OF WHICH COULD BE
SEVERE... AS SHRTWV DIVES DOWN FROM THE NORTH AND SHOULD BE IN THE
NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE FA BETWEEN 15/18Z AND 16/00Z.  THIS COUPLED
WITH FRONTAL BOUNDARY... DAYTIME HEATING AND NORTHERLY WINDS
INCREASING TO 40 KNOTS AT H5 SPELL TROUBLE.  THEREFORE...WILL GO
WITH A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH SOME POSSIBLY SEVERE...MAINLY
OVER PERMIAN BASIN.

COULD SEE SOME LOW CLOUDS TOWARDS MORNING OVER EASTERN PORTIONS
LOOKING AT BOUNDARY RH/S... PERHAPS AS FAR WEST AS KINK AND KHOB.

WILL STICK TO WARMER MOS GUIDANCE THIS GO AROUND AS FRONT NOT THAT
IMPRESSIVE AND LOW LEVEL MOISTURE SHOULD RETURN TONIGHT.

THANKS TO LBB FOR INPUT.

MAF  61/85 23
CNM  57/90 11
MRF  48/84 -1
P07  64/87 11

EARLE

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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.