Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 618
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 19, 1998, 5:00 PM CDT for 38 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 1998, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1998, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 38 counties
Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Borden County, TX, Clay County, TX, Coke County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Ector County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 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.
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Wilbarger | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 65 min |
| Jun 19, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Baylor, Wichita, Wilbarger | 58 min |
| Jun 19, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor | 41 min |
| Jun 19, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 31 min |
| Jun 19, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 50 min |
| Jun 19, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Wilbarger | 50 min |
| Jun 19, 7:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Baylor | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor | 60 min |
| Jun 19, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 33 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 1015 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2288 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Childress, Hardeman | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 1998Every severe thunderstorm watch in 1998
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.