Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 173, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 31, 1998, 5:46 PM CST for Reagan County, Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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 31, 1998, 5:46 PM CST (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 31, 1998, 6:35 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Reagan County, TX, Upton County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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 31, 6:00 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Big Lake, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 1:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 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
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, 2:35 PM CST, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 31, 2:35 PM CST, 3 hours 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 235 PM CST SAT OCT 31 1998 NOT MUCH TIME FOR A DETAILED DISCO THIS GO AROUND. A LINE OF T-STORMS CONTINUED TO DVLP EXTDG FROM NEAR FST TO JUST WEST OF MAF TO EAST OF LBB. A PAC CDFNT WAS MOVING EAST ACROSS THE AREA...ASSOCD WITH THE T-STORM ACTIVITY. ANOTHER FRONT WITH MUCH COOLER AIR SHUD MOVE SOUTH ACROSS THE REGION OVERNITE...AS THE SFC LOW MOVE EASTWARD. THE ETA WAS TRACKING THE UPPER VORT AND SFC LOW FURTHER SOUTH THAN THE NGM. CORRESPONDING...QPF OUTPUT FROM THE ETA THRU TMRW MORNING SHOWS ALMOST AN INCH OVER THE DRY CNTL PERMIAN BASIN...WHILE THE NGM HAD IT'S MAX AMOUNT FURTHER NORTH. WILL WATCH FOR FLASH FLOODING POTNL FOR AREAS THAT RECEIVED EXCESSIVE PCPN LAST NITE. JAL NM RECEIVED ABOUT 4 INCHES FROM REPEAT T-STORMS FRIDAY EVENING. TEMPS WILL BE DRAMATICALLY COOLER TMRW AS COOL CANADIAN AIR SPILL SOUTHWARD. DRY WX CAN BE EXPECTED ALL AREAS EXCEPT OUR FAR SERN CORNER SUNDAY. THANK TO THE RFC...SPC...AND LBB FOR EARLIER COOR. MAF 53/65 60/10 CNM 49/64 20/5 MRF 43/67 40/5 P07 55/71 50/5 RSB/MEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 6:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Loving | 51 min |
| Oct 30, 6:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 47 min |
| Oct 30, 6:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 62 min |
| Oct 30, 7:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 49 min |
| Oct 30, 7:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews | 51 min |
| Oct 30, 8:04 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Loving | 3 hr |
| Oct 30, 8:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 48 min |
| Oct 30, 9:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Winkler | 36 min |
| Oct 30, 9:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 48 min |
| Oct 30, 11:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving, Reeves | 47 min |
| Oct 31, 12:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 61 min |
| Oct 31, 1:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 56 min |
| Oct 31, 2:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 33 min |
| Oct 31, 4:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Howard | 50 min |
| Oct 31, 5:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 48 min |
| Oct 30, 6:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 47 min |
| Oct 30, 7:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 50 min |
| Oct 30, 8:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 33 min |
| Oct 30, 9:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 32 min |
| Oct 30, 11:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 62 min |
| Oct 31, 9:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 46 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.