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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 163, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 31, 1999Terrell County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1999, 9:26 PM CDT for Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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, 9:26 PM CDT (02:26 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 1999, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 49 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 02:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 31, 10:05 PM CDT	Hail 1	Dryden, TX	Hail covered the ground at this location.

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, 6 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 31, 2:31 PM CDT, 6 hours 55 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, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	45 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, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	62 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.