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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 1997, 5:42 PM CDT for Ector County, Winkler County, Texas. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 1997, 5:42 PM CDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1997, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ector County, TX, Winkler County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 6:04 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Goldsmith, TX |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 1063 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1134 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 112244 RRA TORMAF TXC135-495-112315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 542 PM CDT WED JUN 11 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS ...WESTERN ECTOR COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS ...EASTERN WINKLER COUNTY AT 541 PM CDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF WINK OR 7 MILES WEST OF TURNBAUGH CORNER MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... TURNBAUGH CORNER AND GOLDSMITH. THIS STORM CONTAINS A WALL CLOUD AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. EARLE/PENDERGRAST
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 48 min |
| Jun 11, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 50 min |
| Jun 11, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 51 min |
| Jun 11, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 35 min |
| Jun 11, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 51 min |
| Jun 11, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Winkler | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews | 49 min |
| Jun 11, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 49 min |
| Jun 11, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 35 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.