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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 6, 1999Brewster County, Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1999, 4:24 PM CDT for Brewster County, Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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, 4:24 PM CDT (21:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1999, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
66 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 21:18 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1999-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2728 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1999-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 116 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2728 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
647 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
5.7

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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, 2:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 2:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 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, 7:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos3 hr
Jun 5, 7:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos, Terrell58 min
Jun 5, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos, Terrell35 min
Jun 6, 1:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster52 min
Jun 6, 3:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster, Pecos42 min
Jun 6, 5:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews, Gaines50 min
Jun 6, 9:04 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBorden, Dawson116 min
Jun 6, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFTerrell69 min
Jun 6, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos63 min
Jun 6, 5:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWinkler62 min
Jun 6, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews53 min
Jun 6, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFScurry50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.