Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1999, 4:53 PM CDT for Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 67 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
- May 16, 1999, 4:53 PM CDT (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1999, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Terrell County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 192 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2474 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1084 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
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 May 16, 2:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 16, 2:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 230 PM CDT SUN MAY 16 1999 CURRENT VIS LOOPS SHOWS ONLY FAIR WX CU/MID-LVL CLOUDINESS OVR ERN CWA. 18Z SFC ANALYSIS SHOWS DRYLINE FM ABOUT A KLBB-KMAF-KP07 LINE AND PROGRESSING EWD. DRYLINE NOT REAL DISCONTINUOUS AND CONVERGENCE JUST BARELY SHOWING UP ON KMAF 88D...MAINLY S. ALL MODELS HAVE REASONABLE GRIP ON DRYLINE BUT ETA PLACES IT THE BEST. HOW FAR IT GETS BEFORE SWRN L/WV OVERTAKES IT WILL DETERMINE WHERE ALL THE ACTION BEGINS. ETA FCSTS DRYLINE TO REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY THRU MON 12Z...AND W/APPROACHING L/WV...BELIEVE POPS ARE MENTIONABLE IN ERN CWA IN 1ST 2 PDS. WON/T HIT IT TOO HARD THOUGH...AS PAST 2 DAYS HAVE BEEN DISAPPOINTING. GOES DERIVED SOUNDINGS SHOW MOST FAVORABLE ENVIRONMENT TO BE IN SW CWA AFTER CAP ERODES. LOOKING AT PROFILERS...AND CAPES...ENVIRONMENT E OF DRYLINE COULD SUPPORT SEVERE DEVELOPMENT...SO WILL MENTION IT IN ZONES AS WELL. GUIDANCE TEMPS LOOK TO BE REASONABLE...GIVEN H85 FCST TEMPS AND COLD FNT TO SAG SWD AROUND TUE 18Z AS TROF PASSES TO N...SO WILL NOT STRY TOO FAR. CCF AND WZIZ MAF 60/88/56/85 1100 CNM 59/87/55/86 0000 MRF 48/83/45/84 0000 P07 65/94/63/86 2200 44
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Terrell | 65 min |
| May 16, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Terrell | 59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.