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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 18, 1998Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1998, 3:53 AM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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 18, 1998, 3:53 AM CDT (08:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 1998, 4:40 AM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:57 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 18, 4:15 AM CDT	Hail 1.75	Iraan, TX	A line of storms developed that stretch from near Sweetwater to Marathon. The most intense cell in the line marched over Iraan.

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 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 139 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 119 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 4253 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 18, 3:24 AM CDT, 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 3:24 AM CDT, 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 17, 10:35 PM CDT, 5 hours 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1035 PM CDT WED JUN 17 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

745 PM     MIDLAND                   TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/17/98   MIDLAND                        MOTORIST REPORTED GOLF BALL
                                          SIZE HAIL FALLING AT
                                          INTERSECTION OF NORTH
                                          MIDLAND DRIVE AND THOMASON
                                          DRIVE IN MIDLAND.

Local storm report, Jun 17, 10:35 PM CDT, 5 hours 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1035 PM CDT WED JUN 17 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

745 PM     MIDLAND                   TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/17/98   MIDLAND                        MOTORIST REPORTED GOLF BALL
                                          SIZE HAIL FALLING AT
                                          INTERSECTION OF NORTH
                                          MIDLAND DRIVE AND THOMASON
                                          DRIVE IN MIDLAND.

Local storm report, Jun 17, 10:46 PM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1145 PM CDT WED JUN 17 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

510 PM     ODESSA                    TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/17/98   ECTOR                          *** 1 INJ ***
                                          ROOF BLOWN OFF CHURCH AT
                                          WEST UNIVERSITY AND SANTA
                                          MONICA BY APPARENT DUST
                                          DEVILS... REPORTED BY
                                          ECTOR COUNTY EOC ROOF ALSO
                                          DOW,NED POWER LINES.

Local storm report, Jun 17, 10:47 PM CDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1145 PM CDT WED JUN 17 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

510 PM     ODESSA                    TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/17/98   ECTOR                          ROOF BLOWN OFF CHURCH AT
                                          WEST UNIVERSITY AND SANTA
                                          MONICA BY <APPARENT DUST
                                          DEVILS... REPORTED BY
                                          ECTOR COUNTY EOC ROOF ALSO
                                          DOWNED POWER LINES.

Local storm report, Jun 17, 11:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1145 PM CDT WED JUN 17 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

510 PM     ODESSA                    TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/17/98   ECTOR                          *** 1 INJ ***
                                          ROOF BLOWN OFF CHURCH AT
                                          WEST UNIVERSITY AND SANTA
                                          MONICA BY APPARENT DRY
                                          MICROBURST REPORTED BY
                                          ECTOR COUNTY EOC ALSO DOWNED
                                          2 BLOCKS OF POWER LINES WITH
                                          SUPPLEMENTAL INJURY FIREMAN
                                          WAS ELECTROCUTED CONDITION
                                          UNKNOWN ATM

Local storm report, Jun 17, 11:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1145 PM CDT WED JUN 17 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

510 PM     ODESSA                    TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/17/98   ECTOR                          *** 1 INJ ***
                                          ROOF BLOWN OFF CHURCH AT
                                          WEST UNIVERSITY AND SANTA
                                          MONICA BY APPARENT DUST
                                          DEVILS... REPORTED BY
                                          ECTOR COUNTY EOC ROOF ALSO
                                          DOWNED 2 BLOCKS OF POWER LINES
                                          SUPPLEMENTAL INJURY FIREMAN
                                          WAS ELECTROCUTED CONDITION
                                          UNKNOWN ATM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	49 min
Jun 17, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	49 min
Jun 17, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden	50 min
Jun 17, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	50 min
Jun 18, 12:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	48 min
Jun 18, 12:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Upton	46 min

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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.