Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1999, 8:45 PM CDT for Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report 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, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1999, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Terrell County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:48 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 31, 8:58 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Dryden, TX | Storm that cross Highway 349 moved northeast to the Terrell Gas Plant. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 1350 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2595 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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, 6 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 2:31 PM CDT, 6 hours 14 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 47 min |
| May 31, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Terrell | 50 min |
| May 31, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 39 min |
| May 31, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 52 min |
| May 31, 9:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 3 hr |
| May 31, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 49 min |
| May 31, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 62 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.