Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 30, 1998, 11:14 PM MST for Lea County, New Mexico; Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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 30, 1998, 11:14 PM MST (06:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 31, 1998, 12:15 AM MST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lea County, NM, Gaines County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:15 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 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 728 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1105 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 310615 SVRMAF NMC025-TXC165-310715- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1214 AM CST (1114 PM MST) SAT OCT 31 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO GAINES COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS * UNTIL 1215 AM MST (115 AM CST) * AT 1108 PM MST (1208 AM CST)...MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 28 MILES WEST OF SEMINOLE OR 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PAYNES CORNER... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. DIME SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM JUST SOUTH OF NADINE. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS IN SOUTHWESTERN LEA COUNTY ALONG HIGHWAY 128...AND IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORM ARE...PAYNES CORNER... SEMINOLE...FAIRVIEW AND HOBBS. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! AKL/DC &
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, 7:51 PM MST, 3 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 30, 7:51 PM MST, 3 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 851 PM CST (751 PM MST) FRI OCT 30 1998 REMAINED SWAMPED WITH SEVERE WEATHER SO WILL BE BRIEF. CURRENT THINKING OF SEVERE WEATHER CONTINUING TTHROUGH SATURDAY ON TRACK AS ENERGY AND MOISTURE IN PLACE. NO RECOMMENDATION FOR CHANGES IN FORECAST. EDDY COUNTY BEING CLEARED FROM TORNADO WATCH...THANKS KABQ FOR COORDINATION. 72
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 30, 7:11 PM MST, 4 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
811 PM CST (711 PM MST) FRI OCT 30 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
315 PM 5 N PECOS TX TORNADO
10/30/98 REEVES SPOTTER REPORTED BRIEF
TORNADO
415 PM WINK TX HAIL
10/30/98 WINKLER GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY SHERIFF OFFICE
510 PM 8 SE ALPINE TX HAIL
10/30/98 BREWSTER ONE AND A HALF INCH HAIL
REPORTED BY SPOTTER
530 PM 20 SW ARTESIA NM TORNADO
10/30/98 EDDY SPOTTER REPORTED BRIEF
TORNADO
543 PM 10 E ALPINE TX HAIL
10/30/98 BREWSTER QUARTER SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY SHERIFF OFFICE
559 PM CARLSBAD NM HAIL
10/30/98 EDDY ONE INCH HAIL REPORTED
BY SPOTTER
715 PM BENNET NM HAIL
10/30/98 LEA GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY SPOTTER
733 PM 2 E JAL ` NM TSTM WIND GUST
10/30/98 LEA SPOTTER REPORTED POWER
LINES DOWNED
RRFLocal storm report, Oct 30, 10:59 PM MST, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...UPDATED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1157 PM CST (1057 PM MST) FRI OCT 30 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
315 PM 5 N PECOS TX TORNADO
10/30/98 REEVES SPOTTER REPORTED BRIEF
TORNADO
415 PM WINK TX HAIL
10/30/98 WINKLER GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY SHERIFF OFFICE
510 PM 8 SE ALPINE TX HAIL
10/30/98 BREWSTER ONE AND A HALF INCH HAIL
REPORTED BY SPOTTER
530 PM 20 SW ARTESIA NM TORNADO
10/30/98 EDDY SPOTTER REPORTED BRIEF
TORNADO
543 PM 10 E ALPINE TX HAIL
10/30/98 BREWSTER QUARTER SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY SHERIFF OFFICE
559 PM CARLSBAD NM HAIL
10/30/98 EDDY ONE INCH HAIL REPORTED
BY SPOTTER
715 PM BENNET NM HAIL
10/30/98 LEA GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY SPOTTER
733 PM 2 E JAL NM TSTM WIND GUST
10/30/98 LEA SPOTTER REPORTED POWER
LINES DOWNED
900 PM JAL NM TSTM WIND GUST
10/30/98 LEA ESTIMATED 60 MPH GUST
900 PM JAL NM HAIL
10/30/98 LEA GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY JAL POLICE DEPT
1002 PM 14 S ANDREWS T TX HAIL
10/30/98 ANDREWS NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY ANDREWS SHERIFFS OFFICEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 5:53 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 47 min |
| Oct 30, 6:25 PM MST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 50 min |
| Oct 30, 7:04 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 3 hr |
| Oct 30, 7:47 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 33 min |
| Oct 30, 8:03 PM MST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 32 min |
| Oct 30, 10:08 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 62 min |
| Oct 31, 12:29 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 56 min |
| Oct 31, 8:49 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 46 min |
| Oct 30, 5:09 PM MST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Loving | 51 min |
| Oct 30, 5:43 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 47 min |
| Oct 30, 5:58 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 62 min |
| Oct 30, 6:01 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 49 min |
| Oct 30, 6:39 PM MST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews | 51 min |
| Oct 30, 7:17 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 48 min |
| Oct 30, 8:19 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Winkler | 36 min |
| Oct 30, 8:57 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 48 min |
| Oct 30, 10:28 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving, Reeves | 47 min |
| Oct 31, 1:42 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 33 min |
| Oct 31, 3:20 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Howard | 50 min |
| Oct 31, 4:17 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 48 min |
| Oct 31, 4:46 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 49 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1998Severe 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.