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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 29, 1999Loving County, Reeves County, Texas; Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 1999, 11:19 PM CDT for Loving County, Reeves County, Texas; Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 26 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
Apr 29, 1999, 11:19 PM CDT (04:19 UTC)
Expired
Apr 29, 1999, 11:45 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Eddy County, NM, Loving County, TX, Reeves County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:18 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 157 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 00:00Z on 1999-04-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1922 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 00:00Z on 1999-04-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 91 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1922 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
683 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.4
Supercell composite
7.4

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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 Apr 29, 9:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 9:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
905 PM CDT THU APR 29 1999

BECAUSE OF SEVERE WEATHER CONCERNS...THE AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
WILL NOT BE ISSUED. ONGOING FORECAST WILL DO...70.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 7:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCulberson40 min
Apr 29, 7:52 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFCulberson, Reeves38 min
Apr 29, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFLoving, Reeves45 min
Apr 29, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCulberson62 min
Apr 29, 9:15 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFReeves45 min
Apr 29, 9:42 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFCulberson48 min
Apr 29, 9:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLoving, Reeves, Ward3 hr
Apr 30, 11:35 AM CDTTornado WarningMAFLoving25 min
Apr 30, 12:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving, Reeves46 min
Apr 30, 12:24 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFReeves3 hr
Apr 30, 1:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving18 min
Apr 30, 1:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster62 min
Apr 30, 1:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos42 min
Apr 30, 2:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster37 min
Apr 30, 2:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving26 min
Apr 30, 2:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFTerrell47 min
Apr 30, 3:29 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFAndrews, Gaines31 min
Apr 30, 4:11 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLoving3 hr
Apr 30, 4:32 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFGaines43 min
Apr 30, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving45 min
Apr 30, 5:12 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFGaines33 min
Apr 30, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines58 min
Apr 30, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving44 min
Apr 30, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines50 min
Apr 29, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy49 min
Apr 29, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy33 min
Apr 30, 1:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea45 min
Apr 30, 2:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea42 min
Apr 30, 3:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea40 min
Apr 30, 3:53 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFLea37 min
Apr 30, 4:27 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFLea48 min
Apr 30, 6:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLea4 hr

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.