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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 27, 1998, 7:24 PM CST for Ward County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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, 7:24 PM CST (01:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 1998, 7:55 PM CST
- In force
- 31 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 01:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 1.4 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.
919 WFUS1 KMAF 280126 RRA TORMAF TXC475-280155- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 724 PM CST TUE OCT 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN WARD COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS * UNTIL 755 PM CST * AT 722 PM CST... MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO IN THE VICINITY OF MONAHANS... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... THE MONAHANS SANDHILLS STATE PARK. IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. EBC
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, 6:18 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, 7:41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.