Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:31 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Marfa, 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.
- 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
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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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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 58 min |
| May 24, 8:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster, Jeff Davis, Presidio | 3 hr |
| May 24, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 59 min |
| May 24, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Presidio | 30 min |
| May 24, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving, Reeves | 52 min |
| May 24, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 59 min |
| May 24, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 44 min |
| May 24, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 62 min |
| May 24, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 49 min |
| May 24, 9:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 38 min |
| May 24, 10:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reeves | 49 min |
| May 24, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 63 min |
| May 24, 10:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 63 min |
| May 24, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin, Midland | 39 min |
| May 24, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 45 min |
| May 24, 11:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 3 hr |
| May 24, 9:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 3 hr |
| May 24, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 57 min |
| May 24, 9:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 36 min |
| May 24, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 31 min |
| May 24, 10:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 3 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.