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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1999, 8:16 PM CDT for Loving County, Ward County, Winkler County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1999, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Loving County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Wink, TX | Brief tornado that became rain-wrapped very quickly. Brief glimpse of large cone-shaped funnel. |
| May 26, 9:01 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Pyote, TX | |
| May 26, 9:01 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Pyote, TX | Estimated by chaser. |
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 327 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3881 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, 2:14 PM CDT, 6 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:14 PM CDT, 6 hours 2 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 30 min |
| May 26, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Loving, Reeves | 26 min |
| May 26, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Loving | 35 min |
| May 26, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 49 min |
| May 26, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Loving | 49 min |
| May 26, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Midland | 59 min |
| May 26, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector | 41 min |
| May 26, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ward, Winkler | 33 min |
| May 26, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Midland | 51 min |
| May 26, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 51 min |
| May 26, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos, Ward | 43 min |
| May 26, 9:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Martin, Midland | 2 hr |
| May 26, 9:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos, Ward | 34 min |
| May 26, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos, Ward | 30 min |
| May 26, 10:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 31 min |
| May 26, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 57 min |
| May 26, 11:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 39 min |
| May 27, 12:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 45 min |
| May 27, 12:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 30 min |
| May 27, 1:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 117 min |
| May 27, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 57 min |
| May 26, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 40 min |
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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.