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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 26, 1999Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1999, 3:10 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 65 min. 3 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
May 26, 1999, 3:10 PM MDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1999, 4:15 PM MDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Eddy County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 26, 3:45 PM MDTHail 1Lakewood, NM
May 26, 4:00 PM MDTHail 1.25Lakewood, NM
May 26, 4:05 PM MDTHail 1Loco Hills, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 26, 1:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

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 26, 1:14 PM MDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 1:14 PM MDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
214 PM CDT (114 PM MDT) WED MAY 26 1999

STRATUS DECK HAS FORMED OVER MUCH OF THE CWA...HOWEVER IS BEGINNING
TO BURN OFF FROM THE WEST. THIS DECK OF LOW CLOUDS WILL DELAY THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS UNTIL THE LATE AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING
HOURS. CURRENTLY A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT IS PUSHING ITS WAY SOUTH
ACROSS THE SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS/NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN. LOOKING AT
PRESSURE RISES BEHIND THE FRONT INDICATE THAT IT WILL CONTINUE A SLOW
PUSH TO THE SOUTH FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. MEANWHILE AN UPPER LEVEL
SYSTEM LOCATED OVER NRN NM IS PROGD TO EJECT A SUBSTANTIAL PIECE OF
ENERGY ACROSS WEST TEXAS BETWEEN OOZ AND 06Z TONIGHT. GIVEN THE
ALREADY UNSTABLE CONDITIONS ACROSS THE AREA...THIS IN COMBINATION
WITH A SURFACE BOUNDARY SHOULD SET THE STAGE FOR A RATHER INTERESTING
NIGHT ACROSS THE EASTERN CWA. TOMORROW COULD SEE MORE OF THE SAME AS
ANOTHER VORT MAX ROLLS ACROSS THE AREA. FRIDAY WILL LIKELY GET A
SMALL BREAK FROM THE DAY TO DAY AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS...HOWEVER FOR
THE EXTENDED WILL BE BACK INTO A PATTERN OF AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND
THUDNERSTORMS CWA WIDE.

MAF 060/082 060/086 4322
CNM 058/082 058/086 3222
MRF 052/082 052/085 2222
P07 065/086 065/089 4322

MARTIN

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 2:07 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFScurry38 min
May 26, 5:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor39 min
May 26, 3:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy47 min
May 26, 4:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy61 min
May 26, 5:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.