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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1999, 9:46 PM CDT for Winkler County, Texas. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1999, 9:46 PM CDT (02:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1999, 10:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Winkler County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 81 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 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 7:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 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, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 44 min |
| May 24, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 62 min |
| May 24, 9:52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.