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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 2, 1999Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1999, 3:57 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 33 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: Jun 2, 1999, 3:57 PM MDT (21:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1999, 4:30 PM MDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Eddy County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jun 2, 4:05 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Loco Hills, NM	Storm developed in west-central Eddy County along the dryline. Moved to the northeast and dissipated in Lea County.
Jun 2, 4:40 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Loco Hills, NM	Cell developed on flank of previous storm.

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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 2, 3:30 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 206 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1289 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -285 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1531 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 2, 1:40 PM MDT, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 1:40 PM MDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
240 PM CDT WED JUN 2 1999

KMAF WSR-88D INDCS WDLY SCT/DVLPG TSTMS IN EDDY CO NM-NEAR GDP ATTM.
18Z MAF SOUNDING SHOWED LI MINUS 11 AND CAPE NEAR 4400 J/KG WITH
STEEP LAPSE RATES. 18Z MAF SOUNDING ALSO SHOWED 80-90 KT WLY WNDS
ABOVE H3. VERY PRONOUNCED SHEAR PROFILE IN SOUNDING FOR SVR
SUPERCELL TSTMS. INHIBITING FACTOR IS NEARLY 5 DEG C CAP. EXTENSIVE
MID/HI LVL CLOUDINESS ACR CWA ATTM ASSOCD WITH APCHG SPEED MAX ACR
NRN MEXICO/SWRN NM. DIFFLUENCE ALF OCCURRING ACR SRN ROCKIES/ HIGH
PLAINS ENHANCING LIFT. LONG WAVE TROF CONTINUES OVR INTERMTN REGION
WITH DEEP UPR LOW DIGGING SWD ALG THE PAC COAST. GENLY SELY LOW LVL
FLOW E OF MTNS WITH SFC DWPNTS AOA 60F N/E PECOS RIVER. MODELS IN
DECENT AGREEMENT THIS FCST PERIOD. SHORTWAVE TO MOVE ACR ERN NM THIS
EVE AND ACROSS THE CNTRL HIGH PLAINS TNGT. UNSTBL AMS WITH LI/S
APCHG MINUS 4-6 AND CAPES 1500-2500 J/KG PROGGED TNGT E OF MTNS.
MODIFIED SOUNDINGS/18Z MAF SOUNDING INDC STM MOTIONS 245/27 KTS. WITH
DRY LINE XPCD TO REMAIN JUST E CNTRL NM-W TX MTN CHAIN BELIEVE CNVTN
TO DVLP WRN AREAS AND MOVE E TNGT. LLJ FCST TO DVLP TNGT AS H85 WNDS
INCR. SCT POPS MERITED TNGT E OF MTNS. SWLY FLOW ALF CONTS THUR
AHEAD OF W COAST SYS. BEST MID/UPR LVL FORCING EXPECTED TO BE WELL N
OF CWA WITH GRADUAL LOW LVL DRYING INDICATED. THUS WILL CONTINUE
WITH NIL- POP FCST EXCEPT FOR MTNS WHERE AN ISOLD AFTN TSTM MAY
OCCUR. WRN US TROF TO PREVAIL INTO EARLY WEEKEND SUGGESTING THAT DRY
LINE WILL BE PULLED WWD LATE THUR...PERHAPS ALONG E SLPS CNTRL NM-W
TX MTN CHAIN. THIS SCENARIO SUGGESTS MAINLY AFTN/ERY NIGHT
SHWRS/TSTMS TO OCCUR INTO SAT. MAY BE BREEZY WRN SECTIONS SAT WITH
PASSAGE OF SWRN US SYSTEM. EXTENDED PROGS SUGGEST SFC TROF/DRY LINE
QSTNRY ALONG ERN NM/TX BORDER. APPEARS TO BE SUFFICIENT MSTR FOR
CONTINUED SLGT CHC TSTMS INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK.

BF

MAF   70/94/70/95   30/10/10/20
CNM   65/97/64/98   20/5/5/20
MRF   63/91/62/91   20/10/5/20
P07   74/92/74/93   20/10/5/20

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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
Jun 2, 3:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	41 min
Jun 2, 4:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	39 min
Jun 2, 4:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	67 min
Jun 2, 5:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	35 min
Jun 2, 5:22 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Lea	38 min
Jun 2, 5:57 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Lea	48 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.