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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 24, 1999Presidio County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1999, 7:17 PM CDT for Presidio County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report 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
May 24, 1999, 7:17 PM CDT (00:17 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1999, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Presidio County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 24, 7:31 PM CDTHail 0.75Marfa, TX

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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 291 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 00:00Z on 1999-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 826 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 00:00Z on 1999-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 186 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
826 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
186 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
268 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
3.9

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The text

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

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 24, 3:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 3:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 24, 2:32 PM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-250000-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND-ODESSA TX
232 PM CDT MON MAY 24 1999

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS:

ANDREWS   CULBERSON  GLASSCOCK   MARTIN    REAGAN   UPTON
BORDEN    DAWSON     HOWARD      MIDLAND   REEVES   WARD
BREWSTER  ECTOR      JEFF DAVIS  PECOS     SCURRY   WINKLER
CRANE     GAINES     LOVING      PRESIDIO  TERRELL

AND IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO:

EDDY      LEA

SYNOPSIS:
DAYTIME HEATING ACTING ON A MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE WILL
CONTINUE TO PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THIS
EVENING... SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE.  SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED AROUND NOON TODAY OVER THE NORTHERN PERMIAN
BASIN WHERE AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM LAST NIGHTS STORMS PROVIDED
THE NEEDED LIFT.

STORMS THAT DEVELOP EAST OF A KERMIT TO FORT STOCKTON LINE ARE
EXPECTED TO BE SINGLE TO MULTICELL STORMS THAT ARE SLOW MOVING AND
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND LOCALIZED FLOODING AND
STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS AND HAIL UP TO ABOUT NICKEL SIZE.

STORMS THAT DEVELOP WEST OF A WINK TO FORT STOCKTON LINE ARE MORE
LIKELY TO BE STRONGER AND CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL TO GOLFBALL SIZE
AND DAMAGING WIND. A FEW ROTATING SUPERCELLS MAY ALSO DEVELOP THAT
COULD PRODUCE ISOLATED TORNADOES.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS
EXTREME SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS.

FOR THE WEST CENTRAL TEXAS OUTLOOK SEE THE PRODUCT LBBSPSSJT ISSUED
BY NWS SAN ANGELO (WWUS35 KSJT).
Special weather statement, May 24, 2:32 PM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-250000-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND-ODESSA TX
232 PM CDT MON MAY 24 1999

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS:

ANDREWS   CULBERSON  GLASSCOCK   MARTIN    REAGAN   UPTON
BORDEN    DAWSON     HOWARD      MIDLAND   REEVES   WARD
BREWSTER  ECTOR      JEFF DAVIS  PECOS     SCURRY   WINKLER
CRANE     GAINES     LOVING      PRESIDIO  TERRELL

AND IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO:

EDDY      LEA

SYNOPSIS:
DAYTIME HEATING ACTING ON A MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE WILL
CONTINUE TO PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THIS
EVENING... SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE.  SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED AROUND NOON TODAY OVER THE NORTHERN PERMIAN
BASIN WHERE AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM LAST NIGHTS STORMS PROVIDED
THE NEEDED LIFT.

STORMS THAT DEVELOP EAST OF A KERMIT TO FORT STOCKTON LINE ARE
EXPECTED TO BE SINGLE TO MULTICELL STORMS THAT ARE SLOW MOVING AND
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND LOCALIZED FLOODING AND
STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS AND HAIL UP TO ABOUT NICKEL SIZE.

STORMS THAT DEVELOP WEST OF A WINK TO FORT STOCKTON LINE ARE MORE
LIKELY TO BE STRONGER AND CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL TO GOLFBALL SIZE
AND DAMAGING WIND. A FEW ROTATING SUPERCELLS MAY ALSO DEVELOP THAT
COULD PRODUCE ISOLATED TORNADOES.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS
EXTREME SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS.

FOR THE WEST CENTRAL TEXAS OUTLOOK SEE THE PRODUCT LBBSPSSJT ISSUED
BY NWS SAN ANGELO (WWUS35 KSJT).

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 8:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves58 min
May 24, 8:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBrewster, Jeff Davis, Presidio3 hr
May 24, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews59 min
May 24, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPresidio30 min
May 24, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving, Reeves52 min
May 24, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves59 min
May 24, 9:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos44 min
May 24, 9:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster62 min
May 24, 9:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWinkler49 min
May 24, 9:52 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFPecos38 min
May 24, 10:11 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFReeves49 min
May 24, 10:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines63 min
May 24, 10:27 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFPecos63 min
May 24, 11:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin, Midland39 min
May 24, 11:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos45 min
May 24, 11:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEctor, Midland3 hr
May 24, 9:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLea3 hr
May 24, 9:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea57 min
May 24, 9:54 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFLea36 min
May 24, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea31 min
May 24, 10:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLea3 hr

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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.