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Tornado Warning 46, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 15, 1997Terrell County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 1997, 10:26 PM CDT for Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 34 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 15, 1997, 10:26 PM CDT (03:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1997, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Terrell County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 153 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4168 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
4168 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
925 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.9
Supercell composite
10.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 160327 RRA
TORMAF
TXC443-160400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1026 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN TEXAS

   ...SOUTHERN TERRELL COUNTY
 
AT 1025 PM CDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 3 MILES EAST OF SANDERSON MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... SANDERSON
AND DRYDEN.

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

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster48 min
Jun 15, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster47 min
Jun 15, 9:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFTerrell46 min
Jun 15, 10:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFTerrell47 min
Jun 16, 12:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFTerrell48 min
Jun 16, 12:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFTerrell36 min
Jun 16, 1:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFTerrell3 hr
Jun 16, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFScurry62 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.