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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 20, 1998Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1998, 4:09 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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 20, 1998, 4:09 PM CDT (21:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 1998, 4:40 PM CDT
In force: 31 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 21:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 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: 1182 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -303 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2351 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 222 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 20, 2:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 2:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 20, 10:33 AM CDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland	33 min
Jun 20, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane	31 min
Jun 20, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	32 min
Jun 20, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	44 min
Jun 20, 6:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Upton	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.