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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 27, 1998Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 27, 1998, 2:27 PM MST for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 33 min. 3 reports 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 27, 1998, 2:27 PM MST (21:27 UTC)
Expired: Oct 27, 1998, 3:00 PM MST
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Eddy County, NM

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 27, 2:30 PM MST	Thunderstorm Wind	Whites City, NM	Thunderstorm winds blew down a sign near the entrance of Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
Oct 27, 2:35 PM MST	Thunderstorm Wind	Black River, NM	Thunderstorm winds damaged fences in and around the Black River Village area.
Oct 27, 2:50 PM MST	Hail 2	Malaga, NM	The supercell that hit Whites City and the Black River Village continued on its ENE track into the Loving/Malaga area. Two inch diameter hail fell north of Malaga.

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 nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 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: 14 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -232 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 777 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 272129 RRA
TORMAF
NMC015-272200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
327 PM CST (227 PM MST) TUE OCT 27 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW
  MEXICO

* UNTIL 300 PM MST

* AT 226 PM MST... MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING
  TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTH OF CARLSBAD OR 4 MILES WEST OF MALAGA...
  MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

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

ABANDON MOBILE HOMES! GO IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. AS A LAST
RESORT LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD.

SD/RB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 27, 2:04 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	31 min
Oct 27, 2:37 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Eddy	93 min
Oct 27, 3:00 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy, Lea	50 min
Oct 27, 3:09 PM MST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Lea	31 min
Oct 27, 3:52 PM MST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Lea	48 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.