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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 27, 1998, 6:08 PM CST for Ward County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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 27, 1998, 6:08 PM CST (00:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 1998, 6:40 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ward County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 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, 6:45 PM CST | Hail 1.25 | Pyote, 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 27, 5:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1021 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
541 WFUS1 KMAF 280010 RRA TORMAF TXC475-280040- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 608 PM CST TUE OCT 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WARD COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS * UNTIL 640 PM CST * AT 607 PM CST... MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 32 MILES WEST OF MONAHANS OR 11 MILES NORTH OF BARSTOW... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE TORNADO IS CURRENTLY EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS. 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. RSB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 6:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Gaines | 46 min |
| Oct 27, 6:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Winkler | 47 min |
| Oct 27, 6:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ward | 47 min |
| Oct 27, 6:48 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Winkler | 2 hr |
| Oct 27, 7:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ward | 31 min |
| Oct 27, 7:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 49 min |
| Oct 27, 7:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Crane | 46 min |
| Oct 27, 8:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 46 min |
| Oct 27, 9:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 60 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.