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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1997, 7:26 PM CDT for Brewster County, Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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
- Jun 8, 1997, 7:26 PM CDT (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1997, 7:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brewster County, TX, Pecos County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 198 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:29 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 nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 199 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 868 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 090028 RRA TORMAF TXC043-371-090055- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 726 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 755 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WESTERN TEXAS ...NORTHEASTERN BREWSTER COUNTY ...SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY AT 722 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR 21 MILES WEST OF SANDERSON MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THE TORNADO IS CURRENTLY EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS. IT SHOULD STAY JUST SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 90 AND AFFECT EXTREME SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY NEAR HIGHWAY 90 UNTIL 745 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.< AVOID WINDOWS. HUBER/TURNAGE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos | 118 min |
| Jun 8, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Terrell | 48 min |
| Jun 8, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos, Terrell | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos, Terrell | 41 min |
| Jun 8, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 51 min |
| Jun 8, 8:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Terrell | 2 hr |
| Jun 8, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 49 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.