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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 31, 1999Pecos County, Terrell County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1999, 6:40 PM CDT for Pecos County, Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 65 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 31, 1999, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 1999, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Pecos County, TX, Terrell County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 31, 7:15 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Dryden, TX	Hail fell near the intersection of State Highway 349 and Ranch Road 2400.
May 31, 7:53 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Dryden, TX	Same storm moved to the southeast to near the Pecos River. Had strong mid-level rotation on doppler radar. Storm then crossed the river out of the region.

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 31, 2:31 PM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 31, 2:31 PM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
231 PM CDT MON MAY 31 1999

DRYLINE EVOLVING EWD ATTM UNDERNEATH RIDGE PATTERN ALOFT. DWPNTS
INTO THE 30S AT KINK WHILE M50S KMAF. DRYLINE TO BE POSITIONED ACROSS
ERN CWA LATE AFTERNOON AS INTENSE SURFACE HEATING CONTINUES TO MIX
DRIER AIR TO THE SURFACE. ETA DEPICTS WEAKNESS IN CINH FIELDS ALONG/E
OF DRYLINE WHICH IS TO BE IN ERN CWA COINCIDENT WITH CAPES ON ORDER
OF 1000-1500 J/KG...ERGO, ISOLD/WDLY SCT POPS E. MTN TSTMS APPEAR
LESS FAVORABLE TODAY AS CONDITIONS DRIER/MORE STABLE THAN PAST FEW
DAYS. HOWEVER WILL INCLUDE ISOLD POPS AS VISIBLE IMAGERY SHOWING CU
FORMING AND FIRE WX OBS FROM BIG BEND INDICATE DWPNTS STILL IN 40S.
WARM PATTERN TO PERSIST ACROSS W TX/SE NM PER MID LEVEL RIDGE AND 7H
TEMPS OF 13-16 DEGREES C...WILL CONTINUE TREND OF DRY FCST THRU
WEDNESDAY. WILL GO WITH GENERALLY PC SKIES AS SW FLOW ALOFT CONTINUES
TO BRING MID/UPPER LEVEL PACIFIC MSTR INTO REGION. ATTM WOULD INCLUDE
SLIGHT CHC POPS IN EXTENDED AS UPPER TROF OVER SW USA APPROACHES
BACKING FLOW AND BRINGING MSTR BACK W WITH SOME COOLING IN MID LEVEL
NOTED. WZIS.

MAF 67/98/66/99  -/-/-/-
CNM 67/99/65/98  -/-/-/-
MRF 56/90/57/90  -/-/-/-
P07 68/97/69/97  -/-/-/-

GPM

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 31, 12:58 PM CDT, 5 hours 42 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 31, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	59 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.