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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 30, 1998Winkler County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 30, 1998, 4:00 PM CST for Winkler County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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 30, 1998, 4:00 PM CST (22:00 UTC)
Expired: Oct 30, 1998, 5:00 PM CST
In force: 60 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 22:02 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 30, 4:15 PM CST	Hail 1.75	Wink, 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 30, 3:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 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.

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 302201
TORMAF
TXC495-302300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN WINKLER COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS

* UNTIL 500 PM CST

* AT 357 PM CST...MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 6 MILES
  SOUTH OF WINK...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...LWINK.

IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR
ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

AKL/GPM

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, 3:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Ward	50 min
Oct 30, 3:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Winkler	49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.