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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 27, 1998Loving County, Reeves County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 27, 1998, 5:02 PM CST for Loving County, Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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 27, 1998, 5:02 PM CST (23:02 UTC)
Expired
Oct 27, 1998, 5:35 PM CST
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Loving County, TX, Reeves County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 142 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1998-10-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 14 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1998-10-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 120 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

228 
WFUS1 KMAF 272303 RRA
TORMAF

TXC301-389-272335-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
502 PM CST TUE OCT 27 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN LOVING COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS
  NORTHERN REEVES COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS

* UNTIL 535 PM CST

* AT 459 PM CST... MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS
  INDICATED A TORNADO 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF MENTONE... MOVING EAST
  AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...MENTONE.

IF YOU ARE IN A CAR...GO IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING AS A LAST
RESORT LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD.

JD/RSB/JAF

&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 27, 3:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCulberson32 min
Oct 27, 4:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCulberson34 min
Oct 27, 4:14 PM CSTTornado WarningMAFCulberson31 min
Oct 27, 4:30 PM CSTTornado WarningMAFReeves30 min
Oct 27, 4:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCulberson, Jeff Davis47 min
Oct 27, 4:44 PM CSTTornado WarningMAFCulberson31 min
Oct 27, 5:34 PM CSTTornado WarningMAFLoving, Reeves46 min
Oct 27, 5:34 PM CSTTornado WarningMAFWinkler46 min
Oct 27, 5:41 PM CSTTornado WarningMAFAndrews, Gaines34 min
Oct 27, 5:50 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMAFLoving95 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.