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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1997, 4:10 PM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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 14, 1997, 4:10 PM CDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1997, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ector County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 4:15 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Gardendale, TX | A storm that developed over northern Ector County briefly showed supercell-type characteristics and dropped baseball hail on Gardendale. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 1499 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1370 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 142110 RRA TORMAF TXC135-142145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 410 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS ...NORTHERN ECTOR COUNTY AT 409 PM CDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS IN THE VICINITY OF ODESSA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... SCHARBAUER CITY AND GARDENDALE. SPOTTER HAVE REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 5 MILES NORTH OF ODESSA. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SAFETY IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK REFUGE IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. RRF/TWE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 47 min |
| Jun 14, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 51 min |
| Jun 14, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 51 min |
| Jun 14, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Upton | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Howard | 51 min |
| Jun 14, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 6:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Howard | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 51 min |
| Jun 14, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 6:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Scurry | 2 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.