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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 30, 1999Glasscock County, Midland County, Upton County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1999, 6:32 PM CDT for Glasscock County, Midland County, Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 43 min. 2 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 30, 1999, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 1999, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Glasscock County, TX, Midland County, TX, Upton County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 30, 6:37 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Midland, TX	Multicell storm that formed on a northward moving outflow boundary.
May 30, 7:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Garden City, TX	The Midland County storm moved east into Glasscock County, collapsed, and sent out 60+ mph winds near the intersection of State Highways 135 and 137.

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 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 30, 4:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 4:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 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 30, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Pecos	44 min
May 30, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	44 min
May 30, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	64 min
May 29, 7:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Eddy	51 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1999 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.