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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 6, 1999Brewster County, Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1999, 3:33 AM CDT for Brewster County, Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 42 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 6, 1999, 3:33 AM CDT (08:33 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1999, 4:15 AM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Brewster County, TX, Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 198 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 199 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3820 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 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 6, 2:28 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 2:28 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
228 AM CDT SUN JUN 6 1999

STRONG CONVECTION ONGOING FAR S ATTM AS TSTMS THAT DEVELOPED WELL S
IN MEXICO EARLIER LAST EVENING HAVE BEEN MOVING/DEVELOPING NWD.
RECENT TREND HAS BEEN DOWNWARD AND EXPECT THIS CONTINUE...STILL
WILL INCLUDE A 20 POP SRN AREAS TO COVER AS DEVELOPMENT APPEARS TO BE
E OF MID/UPPER LEVEL TROF AXIS. OTHERWISE LOW LEVEL MSTR PUSHING W
WITH DWPNT AT KINK L60S. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY INDICATES WELL DEFINED
SHRTWV TROF MOVING E ACROSS SRN NM ATTM WITH ASSOCD MID LEVEL CLOUD
DEVELOPMENT. ELEVATED INSTABILITY EXIST E OF SHRTWV TROF (PER RUC
SOUNDINGS) SO A LITTLE CONCERNED THAT TSTMS STILL COULD DEVELOP
ACROSS PB. MIGHT NEED TO INCLUDE A 20 POP TO COVER BUT WILL LEAVE OUT
OF WRK FILE ATTM. GENERALLY WDLY SCT POPS THRU REMAINDER OF FP AS
LOW/MID LEVEL MST AXIS REMAINS INVOF MTNS. MONDAY APPEARS TO BE GOOD
DAY FOR MTN TSTMS AS 7H THETA-E RIDGE POSITIONED THERE WITH SOUTHEAST
WINDS IN ADVANCE OF INCREASING CYCLONIC CURVED MID LEVEL FLOW. NO
CHANGES TO EXTENDED. WZIS.

MAF 91/68/93/67  -/2/2
CNM 93/65/93/65  -/2/2
MRF 87/57/89/57  2/2/3
P07 90/68/92/69  2/2/2

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In the hours 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
Jun 5, 7:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	3 hr
Jun 5, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	58 min
Jun 5, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	35 min
Jun 6, 1:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	52 min
Jun 6, 5:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	50 min
Jun 6, 9:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson	116 min
Jun 6, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Pecos	66 min
Jun 6, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	69 min
Jun 6, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	63 min
Jun 6, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Winkler	62 min
Jun 6, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	53 min
Jun 6, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.