Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 256
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 6, 1997, 3:15 PM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico; 22 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 1997, 3:15 PM MDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1997, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Loving County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 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.
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry | 55 min |
| May 6, 5:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 61 min |
| May 6, 5:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 34 min |
| May 6, 5:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 50 min |
| May 6, 5:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry | 55 min |
| May 6, 6:04 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 31 min |
| May 6, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 62 min |
| May 6, 6:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 62 min |
| May 6, 7:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 62 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 360 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -469 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1574 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Harding, Union | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Mexico, 1997Every severe thunderstorm watch in 1997
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.