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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 30, 1998Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 30, 1998, 8:03 PM MST for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 32 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, 8:03 PM MST (03:03 UTC)
Expired: Oct 30, 1998, 8:35 PM MST
In force: 32 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 03:05 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, 3:45 PM MST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 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.

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 310305
TORMAF
NMC025-310335-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
903 PM CST (803 PM MST) FRI OCT 30 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 835 PM MST (935 PM CST)

* AT 802 PM MST... MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING
  TORNADO 20 MILES NORTH OF WINK OR 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BENNETT...
  MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.  THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 820 PM MST (920 PM CST).

THE TORNADO IS CURRENTLY EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS.

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, 5:53 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	47 min
Oct 30, 6:25 PM MST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Lea	50 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.