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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 31, 1998Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 31, 1998, 8:49 AM MST for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 46 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 31, 1998, 8:49 AM MST (15:49 UTC)
Expired: Oct 31, 1998, 9:35 AM MST
In force: 46 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 15:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 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.

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: 515 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -121 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 781 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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 31, 1:59 AM MST, 6 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 31, 1:59 AM MST, 6 hours 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 31, 6:51 AM MST, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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, 7:04 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Loving	3 hr
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 30, 11:14 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	61 min
Oct 31, 12:29 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	56 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
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, 7:47 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1998 Every 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.