Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1999, 3:07 AM CDT for Scurry County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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 26, 1999, 3:07 AM CDT (08:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1999, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Scurry County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 26, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 286 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
- 641 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1299 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
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 25, 8:40 PM CDT, 6 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 25, 8:40 PM CDT, 6 hours 27 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 39 min |
| May 26, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 65 min |
| May 26, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 47 min |
| May 26, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 61 min |
| May 26, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.