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Tornado Watch 436

May 26, 1998Chaves County, Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico; 15 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 26, 1998, 2:45 PM MDT for Chaves County, Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico; 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 1998, 2:45 PM MDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1998, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Loving County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 3:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea66 min
May 26, 3:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews48 min
May 26, 3:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos63 min
May 26, 3:37 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFAndrews48 min
May 26, 4:18 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFAndrews3 hr
May 26, 4:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews61 min
May 26, 4:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos66 min
May 26, 4:49 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFAndrews51 min
May 26, 4:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor63 min
May 26, 5:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWinkler64 min
May 26, 5:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin65 min
May 26, 5:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea62 min
May 26, 5:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews51 min
May 26, 5:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos61 min
May 26, 5:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor61 min
May 26, 6:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving49 min
May 26, 6:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin64 min
May 26, 6:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor, Midland61 min
May 26, 7:21 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFAndrews2 hr
May 26, 7:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGlasscock65 min
May 26, 8:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves39 min
May 26, 8:33 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFGlasscock3 hr
May 26, 8:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves48 min
May 26, 8:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett65 min
May 26, 8:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGlasscock63 min

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 136 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 1998-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2480 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 1998-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 158 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
2480 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
561 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.0

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 4:15 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCChaves, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lea, Roosevelt, San Miguel5 hr
May 25, 8:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Childress and 37 more6 hr
May 25, 11:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAndrews, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Glasscock and 14 more6 hr
May 26, 1:45 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Burnet, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 14 more5 hr
May 26, 12:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Morris, Nacogdoches and 5 more6 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.