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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1997, 7:59 PM CDT for Brewster County, Pecos County, Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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, 7:59 PM CDT (00:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1997, 8:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brewster County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Terrell County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 192 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 192 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 090059 RRA TORMAF TXC043-371-443-090140- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED PRODUCT TYPE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 759 PM CDT (659 PM MDT) SUN JUN 8 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 840 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WESTERN TEXAS ...EASTERN BREWSTER COUNTY ...SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY ...TERRELL COUNTY AT 753 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SANDERSON MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS NOTED 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF SANDERSON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS. PERSONS IN THE AFFECTED AREAS SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. TJT/RSB
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, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos | 29 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, 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.