Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1999, 9:31 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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, 9:31 PM CDT (02:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1999, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Pecos County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 10:00 PM CDT | Hail 3 | Ft Stockton, TX | Hail up to the size of an orange fell in rural areas near U.S. Highway 285. |
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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 139 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, 7:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 7:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 752 PM CDT MON MAY 24 1999 CONVECTION COMING TOGETHER WRN AREAS AS TSTMS THAT INITIATED IN MEXICAN MTNS DRIFTING E/NE WITH MEAN STEERING FLOW. EXPECT TSTMS TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE...ESPECIALLY W OF PECOS RIVER...AS WELL DEFINED OUTFLOW BOUNDARY NEARING THE PECOS RIVER LIKELY TO ENHANCE ONGOING CONVECTION. OTHERWISE N OF THE BOUNDARY TEMPS HAVE COOLED AND 00Z KMAF SOUNDING SHOWING CAPES 1400 J/KG BUT STILL A CAP TO OVERCOME. ATTM WOULD OPT TO MAINTAIN POPS N/E OF BOUNDARY WITH UPDATES POSSIBLY LATER. GPM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Presidio | 58 min |
| 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, 9:43 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 |
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.