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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 28, 1999Reagan County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1999, 11:32 PM CDT for Reagan County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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, 11:32 PM CDT (04:32 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1999, 12:15 AM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Reagan County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 28, 11:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 91 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1999-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1308 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1999-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1308 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
293 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
6.9

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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, 9:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 9:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
930 PM CDT FRI MAY 28 1999

NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE MOUNTAINOUS AREAS OF
SOUTHWEST TEXAS THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS.  SOME
STORMS WERE/ARE MARGINALLY SEVERE WITH SEVERAL REPORTS OF DIME SIZE
HAIL AND ONE REPORT OF A 70 MPH WIND GUST.  RADAR/SATELLITE
INDICATE LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM S CNTL NM TO
TERRELL COUNTY.  THIS AREA IS SLOWLING MOVING EAST.  PCPN POPS IN
ZONES SEEM REASONABLE DUE TO TIMELY UPDATES BY WSFO LBB.  OVERNIGHT
FFA FOR SW TEXAS REMAINS APPROPRIATE.  FURTHER CHANGES TO ZONES NOT
RECOMMENDED AT THIS TIME.

SD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster65 min
May 28, 7:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos43 min
May 28, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFTerrell52 min
May 28, 8:34 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBrewster3 hr
May 28, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos64 min
May 28, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton44 min
May 28, 10:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos3 hr
May 28, 10:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReagan63 min
May 28, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton64 min
May 28, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving, Reeves45 min
May 29, 12:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor, Loving, Winkler45 min
May 29, 12:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews42 min
May 29, 12:35 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLoving115 min
May 29, 12:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFAndrews3 hr
May 28, 10:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy41 min
May 28, 10:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy3 hr
May 28, 10:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy51 min
May 29, 12:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLea2 hr
May 29, 6:09 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFEddy36 min
May 29, 6:38 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFEddy52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.