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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 17, 1999Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 1999, 9:00 PM MST for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 30 min. 2 reports 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: Mar 17, 1999, 9:00 PM MST (04:00 UTC)
Expired: Mar 17, 1999, 9:30 PM MST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Lea County, NM

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 17, 9:00 PM MST	Hail 1	Hobbs, NM	A small multicell cluster of storms produced 1 inch hail between Hobbs and Lovington.
Mar 17, 9:10 PM MST	Hail 1	Lovington, NM

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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 147 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: 648 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.6

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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 Mar 17, 8:15 PM MST, 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 17, 8:15 PM MST, 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 17, 5:59 PM MST, 3 hours 1 minute before

NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-180600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
658 PM CST (558 PM MST) WED MAR 17 1999

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE PERMIAN BASIN
AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS...ANDREWS...DAWSON...BORDEN...HOWARD...SCURRY...
GLASSCOCK...REAGAN...TERRELL...CRANE...MIDLAND...ECTOR...PECOS...
UPTON...MARTIN...AND WINKLER COUNTIES.

Special weather statement, Mar 17, 7:30 PM MST, 1 hour 30 minutes before

NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-180600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
830 PM CST WED MAR 17 1999

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR
ECTOR...WINKLER AND CRANE COUNTIES.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST FOR
THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE PERMIAN BASIN AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS
ANDREWS...DAWSON...BORDEN...HOWARD...SCURRY...GLASSCOCK...REAGAN...
TERRELL...MIDLAND...PECOS...UPTON...AND MARTIN COUNTIES.

Special weather statement, Mar 17, 7:30 PM MST, 1 hour 30 minutes before

NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-180600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
830 PM CST WED MAR 17 1999

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR
ECTOR...WINKLER AND CRANE COUNTIES.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST FOR
THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE PERMIAN BASIN AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS
ANDREWS...DAWSON...BORDEN...HOWARD...SCURRY...GLASSCOCK...REAGAN...
TERRELL...MIDLAND...PECOS...UPTON...AND MARTIN COUNTIES.

Local storm report, Mar 17, 8:31 PM MST, 29 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 17, 5:06 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane	34 min
Mar 17, 5:15 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	50 min
Mar 17, 5:42 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	48 min
Mar 17, 5:44 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane	51 min
Mar 17, 6:01 PM MST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Ector	34 min
Mar 17, 6:26 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	44 min
Mar 17, 6:32 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	48 min
Mar 17, 6:43 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	47 min
Mar 17, 6:49 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	46 min
Mar 17, 7:40 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Terrell	3 hr
Mar 17, 5:30 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	45 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.