Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 156, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 30, 1998, 5:34 PM CST for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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 30, 1998, 5:34 PM CST (23:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 30, 1998, 6:20 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brewster County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 5:43 PM CST | Hail 1 | Alpine, TX |
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 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 258 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
- 536 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 729 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 30, 2:44 PM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 30, 2:44 PM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 244 PM CST FRI OCT 30 1998 CONVECTION HAS FIRED ALONG THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS NORTH TO BETWEEN KCSM AND KHOB. WE AGREE WITH SPC/S ASSESSMENT IN THEIR LATEST SWOMCD. SEVERE CONVECTION MAY FOCUS ALONG THE EASTERN AND SOUTHERN EDGES OF THE COLD POOL SPREADING BENEATH THE CURRENT ACTIVITY...AND IF THIS IS INDEED THE CASE...ORIENTATION OF THIS BOUNDARY RELATIVE TO THE STORM-RELATIVE FLOW MAY SUPPORT STORMS HAVING PERSISTENT ROTATION. THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...SHOULD CONTINUE MOVING EAST ACROSS THE CWA THIS EVENING WITH LINGERING SHOWERS IN THEIR WAKE AS THE SOUTHWESTERN CA SHORTWAVE TROUGH APPROACHES THE AREA. BOTH THE ETA AND MM5 MODELS SUGGEST ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT SATURDAY AS A DRYLINE SHARPENS UP AND PUNCHES INTO WEST TX. WSFO LBB HAS THIS SCENARIO HANDLED NICELY. REGARDING THE NUMBERS...FWC GUIDANCE LOWS TONIGHT ARE LOW GIVEN CLOUDS AND MOISTURvE...OTHERWISE GUIDANCE IS CLOSE TO PRESENT THINKING. THANKS FOR COORD ABQ AND LBB. SNAP COUNT FOLLOWS... MAF 63/72 70/60 CNM 56/66 60/50 MRF 55/64 60/50 P07 64/78 60/50 BC/BF/SG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 3:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reeves | 34 min |
| Oct 30, 3:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 33 min |
| Oct 30, 3:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ward | 50 min |
| Oct 30, 3:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 49 min |
| Oct 30, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Winkler | 60 min |
| Oct 30, 4:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 34 min |
| Oct 30, 5:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 47 min |
| Oct 30, 5:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 51 min |
| Oct 30, 5:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Eddy | 64 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.