Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1998, 3:00 PM MST for Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 50 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
- Oct 27, 1998, 3:00 PM MST (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 1998, 3:50 PM MST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -232 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 777 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 272202 RRA SVRMAF NMC015-025-272250- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 400 PM CST (300 PM MST) TUE OCT 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO SOUTHEASTERN EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 350 PM MST. * AT 259 PM MST... MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 52 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOBBS OR 12 MILES EAST OF MALAGA... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! SD/RB
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 Oct 27, 2:00 PM MST, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 27, 2:00 PM MST, 1 hour before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 259 PM CST (159 PM MST) TUE OCT 27 1998 CURRENT KMAF 88D/LDS EQUIPMENT SHOWS FIRST WAVE OF CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY ON THE WANE IN NW CWA. MOST ACTIVITY IS NOW -SHRA IN NM ZONES...THE PERMIAN BASIN...AND THE S PLAINS. EARLIER ACTIVITY DUE TO GOOD UPPER LVL DIV AND LO LVL CONV AS A RESULT OF BEING IN RRQ OF H2 JET. BELIEVE CLOUD COVER HELPED KEEP THINGS TO A MINIMUM THROUGHOUT. ST RAPIDLY CLEARING OUT IN THE W...ONLY TO BE REPLACED BY CLOUD STREETS TO THE SW. FARTHER W...COLD FNT EXTENDS ALONG AZ/NM BORDER INTO CHIHUAHUA...W CLEAR SKIES BEYOND. FROPA NOT READILY APPARENT LOOKING AT SFC OBS. HOWEVER...THIS IS CLEARLY EVIDENT IN THE SATELLITE PICS. NOTING TIMING OF FRONT....ALONG WITH SOME PROGGED MID LVL CAA OVERNIGHT...CANT RULE OUT THE POSSIBILITY OF MORE ACTIVITY DURING AT LEAST THE 1ST PD. ALSO...BELIEVE HI DEWPTS OVERNIGHT COULD RESULT IN BR FORMING IN PLACES NEAR MORNING. SYNOPTICALLY...CLOSED LOW OVER NERN NV BEGINNING TO OPEN AS IT INCREASES IN TILT NEGATIVELY. IF MODELS ARE RIGHT...THIS WILL NOT MOVE FAR ENOUGH S TO AFFECT CWA...KEEPING ALL ACTIVITY IN N NM AND THE TX PANHANDLE...AND LEAVING THE CWA IN A DRY SWLY FLOW FOR THE THRU AT LEAST THU. MAF 60/79 40/20 CNM 56/83 50/-- MRF 46/78 30/10 P07 61/86 40/-- JD/SMD/RJN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2:04 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 31 min |
| Oct 27, 2:27 PM MST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Eddy | 33 min |
| Oct 27, 2:37 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 93 min |
| Oct 27, 3:09 PM MST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 31 min |
| Oct 27, 3:52 PM MST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1998Every 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.