Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1998, 4:27 PM CDT for Culberson County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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
- Jul 13, 1998, 4:27 PM CDT (21:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1998, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Culberson County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 212 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 4:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Pine Spgs, TX | A multicell storm developed in the Guadalupe Mountains and caused dime size hail in the vicinity of "The Bowl". Fire fighters attempting to complete a controlled burn were pelted by the hail. |
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
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -416 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2710 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 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.
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 13, 1:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 1:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 159 PM CDT (1259 PM MDT) MON JUL 13 1998 TSRA DEVELOPMENT OVER THE MTNS IS A LITTLE LATER IN GETTING STARTED THIS AFTERNOON AS N/NE FLOW IS OVER MOST SECTIONS. THE SLOW MOVING SURFACE TROUGH HAS PUSHED TO THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY WITH BEST MOISTURE AND HIGHER THETA E AIR NEAR THE TROUGH IN THE BIG BEND AND DAVIS MOUNTAINS. NOSE OF 3H 50KT JET STREAK MOVING INTO SRN SECTIONS FROM NM AROUND 00Z SHUD HELP WITH LIFT THROUGH THE LAYER NEAR ENTRANCE REGION. WINDS ALOFT HAVE WEAKENED OVERNIGHT AND THIS WILL ALLOW FOR SLOWER MOVEMENT OF STORMS THAT DEVELOP. AFTER COORD W/LBB WL ADD FIRST PERIOD LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS POSSIBLE IN THE BIG BEND/DAVIS MOUNTAINS. ELSEWHERE NORTH OF PECOS WL ADD MINIMAL POPS FOR ACTIVITY ASSOCIATED WITH MOVEMENT AWAY FROM THE NM AND GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS AND SWD MOVING BOUNDARIES FROM PREVIOUS CONVECTION. COOLER NUMERICAL TEMPERATURE GUIDANCE NOW LOOKS REASONABLE AND WL FOLLOW CLOSELY. CNM 70/100 21 MAF 70/98 11 MRF 62/90 33 P07 75/98 22 JCP/JLF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson | 33 min |
| Jul 13, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson | 48 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.