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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 28, 1999Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1999, 9:54 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 51 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 28, 1999, 9:54 PM MDT (03:54 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1999, 10:45 PM MDT
In force: 51 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 03:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 28, 1:22 PM MDT, 8 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 1:22 PM MDT, 8 hours 32 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 6:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	65 min
May 28, 6:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	43 min
May 28, 6:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	52 min
May 28, 7:34 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Brewster	3 hr
May 28, 7:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	64 min
May 28, 9:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	44 min
May 28, 9:09 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	3 hr
May 28, 9:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	63 min
May 28, 9:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	64 min
May 28, 10:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Loving, Reeves	45 min
May 28, 10:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	43 min
May 28, 11:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector, Loving, Winkler	45 min
May 28, 11:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	42 min
May 28, 11:35 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Loving	115 min
May 28, 11:55 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Andrews	3 hr
May 28, 9:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	41 min
May 28, 9:22 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Eddy	3 hr
May 28, 11:45 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Lea	2 hr
May 29, 5:09 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Eddy	36 min
May 29, 5:38 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Eddy	52 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.