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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 27, 1998Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 27, 1998, 3:09 PM MST for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 31 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 27, 1998, 3:09 PM MST (22:09 UTC)
Expired
Oct 27, 1998, 3:40 PM MST
In force
31 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 22:08 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 nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1998-10-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 14 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1998-10-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 120 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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 272211 RRA
TORMAF

NMC025-272240-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
409 PM CST (309 PM MST) TUE OCT 27 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 340 PM MST (440 PM CST)

* AT 307 PM MST... MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING
  TORNADO 27 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CARLSBAD OR 20 MILES SOUTH OF
  HALFWAY... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

THE TORNADO IS CURRENTLY EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS.

IF YOU ARE IN A CAR...GO IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING! AS A LAST
RESORT LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD.

JD/RSB/JAF

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 27, 2:04 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy31 min
Oct 27, 2:27 PM MSTTornado WarningMAFEddy33 min
Oct 27, 2:37 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy93 min
Oct 27, 3:00 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy, Lea50 min
Oct 27, 3:52 PM MSTTornado WarningMAFLea48 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.