Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1998, 7:41 PM CST for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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, 7:41 PM CST (01:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 1998, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gaines County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:40 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 5:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 97 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.
950 WUUS1 KMAF 280142 RRA SVRMAF TXC165-280230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 741 PM CST TUE OCT 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GAINES COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS * UNTIL 830 PM CST * AT 739 PM CST... MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SEMINOLE OR 23 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PAYNES CORNER... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... PAYNES CORNER. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. RRF/RSB
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, 6:33 PM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 27, 6:33 PM CST, 1 hour 8 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, 6:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ward | 32 min |
| Oct 27, 6:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Gaines | 46 min |
| Oct 27, 6:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Winkler | 47 min |
| Oct 27, 6:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ward | 47 min |
| Oct 27, 6:48 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Winkler | 2 hr |
| Oct 27, 7:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ward | 31 min |
| Oct 27, 7:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Crane | 46 min |
| Oct 27, 8:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 46 min |
| Oct 27, 9:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 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.