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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

July 5, 1998Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1998, 7:45 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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
Jul 5, 1998, 7:45 PM CDT (00:45 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1998, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Pecos County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1998-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 808 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1998-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
808 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2576 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
84 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 Jul 5, 3:09 PM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 3:09 PM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
309 PM CDT SUN JUL 5 1998

CONVECTION DEVELOPING AGAIN TODAY WITH AFTERNOON HEATING. LATEST
KMAF WSR-88D DATA INDICATING MOST THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN BREWSTER
COUNTY.

NOT VERY CONFIDENT WITH ETA AGAIN TODAY. NGM CONTINUES 700 MB THETA
E RIDGE OVER NEW MEXICO AND FAR WEST TEXAS THROUGH 48 HOURS. FORECAST
SOUNDINGS INDICATE ATMOSPHERE OVER FA WILL CONTINUE DO BE UNSTABLE
WITH ABOVE AVERAGE PRECIPITABLE WATER AMOUNTS. SURFACE FOCUS REMAINS
THE MISSING LINK. OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM CONVECTION TO THE EAST MAY
INITIATE THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON OVER PB. OTHERWISE...
BEST CHANCES OF POPS WILL BE IN THE MOUNTAINS.

AS FOR TE MPERATURES HAVE GONE WITH NUMBERS AT OR WITHIN ONE DEGREE
OF PERSISTENCE.

MAF 74/ 98 10/10
CNM 74/100 20/20
MRF 66/ 89 30/30
P07 77/ 93 10/10

HUBER/NADEN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 9:11 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy2 hr

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.