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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 30, 1998Ward County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 30, 1998, 3:25 PM CST for Ward County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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 30, 1998, 3:25 PM CST (21:25 UTC)
Expired: Oct 30, 1998, 4:15 PM CST
In force: 50 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 21:27 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 30, 3:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 536 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -173 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 729 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 302126
TORMAF
TXC475-302215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
325 PM CST FRI OCT 30 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WARD COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS

* UNTIL 415 PM CST

* AT 323 PM CST... MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS
  INDICATED A TORNADO 31 MILES WEST OF MONAHANS OR 17 MILES WEST OF
  PYOTE... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS I|N THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... BARSTOW AND
PYOTE.

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.

GPM/GNM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 30, 3:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Reeves	34 min
Oct 30, 3:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ward	33 min
Oct 30, 3:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Winkler	49 min
Oct 30, 4:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Winkler	60 min
Oct 30, 4:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	34 min
Oct 30, 5:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	47 min
Oct 30, 5:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	46 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.