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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 27, 1998Crane County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 27, 1998, 7:49 PM CST for Crane County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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, 7:49 PM CST (01:49 UTC)
Expired
Oct 27, 1998, 8:35 PM CST
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Crane County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:50 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Oct 27, 5:15 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 65 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 00:00Z on 1998-10-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 237 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 00:00Z on 1998-10-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

971 
WFUS1 KMAF 280151 RRA
TORMAF
TXC103-280235-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN AND CENTRAL CRANE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS

* UNTIL 835 PM CST

* AT 747 PM CST... MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING
  TORNADO 23 MILES WEST OF CRANE OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF TUBBS
  CORNER... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... TUBBS CORNER.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 27, 6:08 PM CSTTornado WarningMAFWard32 min
Oct 27, 6:14 PM CSTTornado WarningMAFGaines46 min
Oct 27, 6:18 PM CSTTornado WarningMAFWinkler47 min
Oct 27, 6:38 PM CSTTornado WarningMAFWard47 min
Oct 27, 6:48 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMAFWinkler2 hr
Oct 27, 7:24 PM CSTTornado WarningMAFWard31 min
Oct 27, 7:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines49 min
Oct 27, 8:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane46 min
Oct 27, 9:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton60 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.