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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 30, 1998Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 30, 1998, 4:31 PM MST for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 64 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, 4:31 PM MST (23:31 UTC)
Expired: Oct 30, 1998, 5:35 PM MST
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Eddy County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 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, 4:59 PM MST	Hail 1	Carlsbad, NM

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, 2:15 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Oct 30, 3:45 PM MST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 206 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 302333
TORMAF
NMC015-310035-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
531 PM CST (431 PM MST) FRI OCT 30 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 535 PM MST (635 PM CST)

* AT 430 PM MST... MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING
  TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CARLSBAD OR 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  OTIS... MOVING NtORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... CARLSBAD... OTIS
  AND LOVING.

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, 4:14 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	51 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in New Mexico, 1998 Every tornado warning in 1998 Tornadoes in 1998

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.