Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1998, 10:11 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. 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
- May 19, 1998, 10:11 PM MDT (04:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1998, 11:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 49 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 04:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 10:25 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Eunice, NM | A multicell severe thunderstorm moved into Eunice with torrential rains and winds at 50 with gusts to 70 mph. The complex of storms originated earlier in the afternoon in northeastern Chihuahua in the Sierra del Huesco, northwest of Presidio where temperature |
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 00:00Z, 4.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 357 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 200412 RRA SVRMAF NMC025-200500- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1111 PM CDT (1011 PM MDT) TUE MAY 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 1100 PM MDT (1200 AM CDT) * AT 1009 PM MDT... MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 26 MILES SOUTH OF HOBBS OR 10 MI*LES SOUTHWEST OF EUNICE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... OIL CENTER AND EUNICE. DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! TWE/MDW
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 May 19, 12:32 PM MDT, 9 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 19, 12:32 PM MDT, 9 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 132 PM CDT TUE MAY 19 1998 SURFACE DATA SHOWS TROF W WITH SHALLOW LOW LEVEL MSTR IN PLACE PER WIDESPREAD L50 DWPTNS AND OBSERVED SATELLITE SOUNDINGS ACROSS THE CWA. NGM FCST SOUNDING PER GARP SEEM TO HAVE BEST HANDLE ON CURRENT SITUATION...NONETHELESS 7H TEMPS AND NEGATIVE AREA WILL BE DIFFICULT TO OVERCOME THIS AFTERNOON IN THE PLAINS WITH LACK OF GOOD SURFACE FOCUS. INCREASING PACIFIC MSTR ACROSS THE SW PER IR IMAGERY SUGGEST LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING STORMS AGAIN LIKELY. AS FOR MCS DEVELOPMENT NOT AS CONFIDENT ABOUT THAT AS I WAS LAST NIGHT PER MSTR CONVERGENCE CONSIDERATIONS. CONVECTION UNLIKELY E OF THE MTNS TMW AS ETA/NGM PROG 7H TEMPS 13-14 DEGREES C BY 00Z WITH LOW LEVEL MSTR MARGINAL AT BEST...DESPITE BETTER DEFINED SURFACE TROF. MAF 69/99 -/- CNM 68/99 10/10 MRF 56/92 30/20 P07 71/98 -/- GPM/SVG /
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 7:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 49 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.