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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 176, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 5, 1999Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1999, 6:37 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 68 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1999, 6:37 PM CDT (23:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1999, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 5, 1:35 PM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 1:35 PM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
135 PM CDT SAT JUN 5 1999

WK PAC FNT DRAPED NE/SW OVER NM THIS AFTN WHILE DRYLINE EXTENDS FM
E OF MAF-FST INTO BIG BEND.  WV IMAGERY SHOWS H5 LOW OVER FOUR
CORNERS WITH PERTURBATIONS EJECTING NEWD AHD OF IT.  AS MAIN H5
SHRTWV PASSES NEWD...TRAILING SHEARED VORTICITY MOVES INTO W TX/SE NM
TNGT...THEN LINGERS ACRS AREA SUN/MON.

TSRA THAT FIRED EARLIER ALG THETA E AXIS MOVED OUT OF CWA EARLY THIS
AFTN.  DRYLINE LOOKS TO STALL E MAF-FST THRU BIG BEND BY EARLY
EVNG.  ATMOSPHERE SUFFICIENTLY UNSTABLE ALG AND E FOR POSSIBLE
TSRA THIS AFTN/EVNG.  XPC WINDS TO BACK NR SFC AS SYSTEM APPROACHES
AND MOVE DRYLINE WWD TNGT ROUGHLY TO TX/NM STATELINE.  AS UPPER
DYNAMICS /COOLER TEMPS ALOFT MOVE IN FM WEST THINK TSRA COULD FIRE UP
IN CONVERGENT ZONE ALG BACKING DRYLINE AND PAC FNT.  LOOKS AS THOUGH
THERE WILL STILL BE PLENTY OF CAPE...1000-2000 J/KG...ALG AND EAST OF
THIS AREA TNGT IN DEEP MOIST ATMOSPHERE.  H5 AND H7 WINDS PROGGED TO
WEAKEN DURG EVNG THO...POSSIBLY CUTTING DOWN ON SEVERE CHC.  STEEP
LAPSE RATES REMAIN ACRS MUCH CWA SUNDAY WHILE HIGH CLDS APPEAR TO
SHIFT SLOWLY EWD.  WITH GOOD HEATING SUN/MON WILL INCLUDE CHC TSRA
DURG LATE AFTN/EVNG MAINLY IN ERN ZNS.

GUIDANCE TEMPS LOOK TOO COOL THRU MOST OF PD WITH MSTR MOVG BACK THRU
AREA EACH NIGHT AND BEING PUSHED EAST DURG DAY.  WILL GO ABV TNGT...
AND SUN NGT AND COMPROMISE ON DAYTIME READINGS.

IN THE EXTENDED...SERIES OF H5 SHRTWVS CONT TO DROP SEWD THRU PAC NW
WITH EACH PROGRESSIVELY WEAKER AND FURTHER NORTH. THIS SHUD GIVE AREA
AT LEAST SLIGHT CHC TSRA AFTN/EVNG TUE WITH MSTR AVAILABLE AND
DAYTIME HEATING.  WOULD THINK CHC DECREASES AT LEAST EAST OF MTNS AS
BETTER DYNAMICS MIGRATE NWD.

MAF 70/92/71/93 3/2/2/2
CNM 61/97/68/99 0/0/0/1
MRF 51/87/55/91 0/0/0/1
P07 71/89/72/91 2/2/1/2

AKL

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 12:53 PM CDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 3:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos46 min
Jun 5, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Pecos49 min
Jun 5, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton48 min
Jun 5, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.