Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1998, 7:12 PM CDT for Dawson County, Martin County, Texas. It was in force for 48 min. 2 reports 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 21, 1998, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1998, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dawson County, TX, Martin County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 7:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Patricia, TX | The storm in the southwestern Dawson County moved slowly to the east and produced winds estimated at close to 80 mph at a Cotton Gin. |
| Jun 21, 7:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Tarzan, TX | Just as occurred in SW Dawson County, a long duration of wind occurred from this storm as it developed southward into Martin County. Many tree limbs were broken off and a small shed was damaged. A total of 2.25" of rain was recorded here. |
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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 2073 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3023 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
517 WUUS1 KMAF 220014 RRA SVRMAF TXC115-317-220100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 712 PM CDT SUN JUN 21 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN DAWSON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS NORTHERN MARTIN COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 709 PM CDT... MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAMESA OR 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PATRICIA MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. * THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS BUT IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT HWY 349 BY 730 PM CDT. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAINS ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS RSB/EMP
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 21, 2:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 2:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 205 PM CDT SUN JUN 21 1998 CONVECTION STARTING TO FIRE OVER THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS AT THIS TIME. 18Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS A TROUGH WITH ASSOCIATED WIND SHIFT AXIS EXTENDING ALONG A CHILDRESS-WINK LINE. THE SURFACE LOW NEAR CHILDRESS APPEARS TO BE SLOWLY FILLING WHILE THE COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO LANGUISH OVER THE WRN TX SOUTH PLAINS. LOOKS LIKE A VERY SIMILAR SYNOPTIC PATTERN WILL PERSIST THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON WHILE HEIGHTS ALOFT CONTINUE TO BUILD SLIGHTLY. SURFACE TROUGH APPEARS TO STAY FARTHER W ON MONDAY AFTERNOON PER MODEL GUIDANCE. THEREFORE...THREAT FOR ISOLATED/WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY EXTEND FARTHER W MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FORECASTS FOR TODAY LOOK ON TRACK FOR TOMORROW...AND FORECASTS FOR TONIGHT DO NOT APPEAR TO NEED MUCH CHANGING. MAF 75/103 10/-- CNM 68/109 00/00 MRF 65/100 10/10 P07 75/98 --/00 TJT/SVG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 7:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson, Martin | 2 hr |
| Jun 21, 7:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson, Martin | 117 min |
| Jun 21, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 46 min |
| Jun 21, 8:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Martin | 34 min |
| Jun 21, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Dawson | 35 min |
| Jun 21, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 35 min |
| Jun 22, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 34 min |
| Jun 22, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 34 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.