Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 245, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1999, 8:29 PM CDT for Ward County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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
- Jun 18, 1999, 8:29 PM CDT (01:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1999, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Ward County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 18, 8:45 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Pyote, TX | A hailstorm that sat over I-20 in Ward County coated the highway with ice. An 18-wheeler truck overturned on the slick highway near Mile Marker 58. |
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 Jun 18, 1:57 PM CDT, 6 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 1:57 PM CDT, 6 hours 32 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 5:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews | 2 hr |
| Jun 19, 6:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 5:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 110 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.