Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 29, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 30, 1998, 6:25 PM MST for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 50 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, 6:25 PM MST (01:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 30, 1998, 7:15 PM MST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lea County, NM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:24 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, 6:33 PM MST | Thunderstorm Wind | Jal, NM | Power lines knocked down. |
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 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 728 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1105 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 310126 TORMAF NMC025-310215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 725 PM CST (625 PM MST) FRI OCT 30 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 715 PM MST (815 PM CST) * AT 623 PM MST... MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 21 MILES NORTH OF WINK OR 6 MILES EAST OF BENNETT... P MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE TORNADO IS CURRENTLY EXPECTED TO MOVE TOWARD HIGHWAY 128 EAST OF JAL. IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. GPM/EMP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 5:53 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 47 min |
| Oct 30, 7:04 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 3 hr |
| Oct 30, 7:47 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 33 min |
| Oct 30, 8:03 PM MST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 32 min |
| Oct 30, 10:08 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 62 min |
| Oct 30, 11:14 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 61 min |
| Oct 31, 12:29 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 56 min |
| Oct 31, 8:49 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 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.