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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 27, 1998Culberson County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1998, 4:06 PM CST for Culberson County, Texas. It was in force for 34 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: Oct 27, 1998, 4:06 PM CST (22:06 UTC)
Expired: Oct 27, 1998, 4:40 PM CST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Culberson County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 27, 4:15 PM CST	Hail 1.75	Van Horn, TX	This storm entered southern Culberson County from extreme southern Hudspeth County. Golfball size hail fell on U.S. Highway 90 south of Van Horn.

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, 10.1 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 997 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 158 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 Oct 27, 3:00 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 27, 3:00 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes 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, 3:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson	32 min
Oct 27, 4:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Culberson	31 min
Oct 27, 4:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Reeves	30 min
Oct 27, 4:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson, Jeff Davis	47 min
Oct 27, 4:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Culberson	31 min
Oct 27, 5:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Loving, Reeves	33 min
Oct 27, 5:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Loving, Reeves	46 min
Oct 27, 5:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Winkler	46 min
Oct 27, 5:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	34 min
Oct 27, 5:50 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Loving	95 min
Oct 27, 3:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	31 min
Oct 27, 3:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Eddy	33 min
Oct 27, 3:37 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Eddy	93 min
Oct 27, 4:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy, Lea	50 min
Oct 27, 4:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Lea	31 min
Oct 27, 4:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Lea	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.