Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 27, 1998, 3:52 PM MST for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 48 min. 2 reports 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 27, 1998, 3:52 PM MST (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 1998, 4:40 PM MST
- In force
- 48 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 22:54 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 27, 4:08 PM MST | Tornado F0 | Eunice, NM | A New Mexico State Police Trooper reported a brief tornado over open country. |
| Oct 27, 4:25 PM MST | Hail 1 | Eunice, NM | The supercell storm that crossed Eddy County moved over rural parts of Lea County before striking Eunice. This storm then crossed the Texas border into northeastern Andrews County. |
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, 10.9 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -232 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 777 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 272254 RRA TORMAF NMC025-272340- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 452 PM CST (352 PM MST) TUE OCT 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 440 PM MST * AT 350 PM MST... MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 29 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOBBS OR 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EUNICE... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... EUNICE. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES! GO IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD. SD/RB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2:04 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 31 min |
| Oct 27, 2:27 PM MST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Eddy | 33 min |
| Oct 27, 2:37 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 93 min |
| Oct 27, 3:00 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 50 min |
| Oct 27, 3:09 PM MST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 31 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in New Mexico, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.