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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 424

May 25, 199838 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 25, 1998, 6:15 PM CDT for 38 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 1998, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1998, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 38 counties

Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Coke County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Ector County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

30 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke	64 min
May 25, 6:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Irion	66 min
May 25, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cochran	27 min
May 25, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley	61 min
May 25, 6:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Irion	3 hr
May 25, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Mitchell	51 min
May 25, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Terry	65 min
May 25, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling	30 min
May 25, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Irion, Tom Green	50 min
May 25, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	46 min
May 25, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lynn	62 min
May 25, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	46 min
May 25, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Terry	31 min
May 25, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling	51 min
May 25, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	32 min
May 25, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson	47 min
May 25, 8:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Lynn	46 min
May 25, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lynn	49 min
May 25, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Kent	35 min
May 25, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Garza	61 min
May 25, 9:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Borden	49 min
May 25, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson	64 min
May 25, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	63 min
May 25, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	65 min
May 25, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling	62 min
May 25, 11:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Sterling	3 hr
May 25, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling	62 min
May 25, 11:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Sterling	49 min
May 25, 11:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	51 min
May 25, 11:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Coke	46 min

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 296 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: 28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -449 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 877 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -150 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 4:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coke and 25 more	6 hr

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.