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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 27, 1998, 6:18 PM CST for Winkler County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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, 6:18 PM CST (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 1998, 7:05 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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, 6:20 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 53 | Wink, TX | The observer at the Winkler County Airport recorded a 53 knot (61 mph) gust. |
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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 81 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.
629 WFUS1 KMAF 280020 RRA TORMAF TXC495-280105- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 618 PM CST TUE OCT 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WINKLER COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS * UNTIL 705 PM CST * AT 616 PM CST... MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KERMIT... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... KERMIT AND THE WINKLER COUNTY SANDHILLS PARK. 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. RRF/RSB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 6:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ward | 32 min |
| Oct 27, 6:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Gaines | 46 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 |
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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.