Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1998, 5:45 PM MST for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 45 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, 5:45 PM MST (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 1998, 6:30 PM MST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lea County, NM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 6:25 PM MST | Thunderstorm Wind | Mc Donald, NM | Thunderstorm winds severely damaged two barns in the McDonald and the Prarieview areas. |
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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1021 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 280047 RRA SVRMAF NMC025-280130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 645 PM CST (545 PM MST) TUE OCT 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 630 PM MST * AT 542 PM MST...MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF LOVINGTON OR 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MCDONALD...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! JD/RSB/JAF &
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, 5:33 PM MST, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 27, 5:33 PM MST, 12 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 633 PM CST (533 PM MST) TUE OCT 27 1998 AT 625 PM...STRONG/SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH AN EMBEDDED PERSISTENT MESOCYCLONE NEAR KERMIT CONTINUES MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. STORMS ARE BEGINNING TO BECOME LESS CELLULAR AND EVOLVE INTO A BROKEN LINE OVER THE PAST HOUR. QUICK SURFACE ANALYSIS AT 00Z SHOWS A ZONE OF HIGHER INSTABILITIES ABOUT 80NM WIDE EXTENDING FROM HOBBS TO DEL RIO WITH ADAP LIS AROUND MINUS 5...AND APPARENT MESOLOW NEAR KERMIT ASSOCIATED WITH LOW LEVEL DRY AIR INTRUSION FROM NORTHERN MEXICO. CURRENT INDICATIONS ARE STORMS WILL WEAKEN AROUND 02Z WITH LOSS OF HEATING AND DYNAMICS AS MID-LEVEL SHORTWAVE TROUGH PULLS NORTHEASTWARD INTO CENTRAL PLAINS. EBC/RRF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 6:20 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 35 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.