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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 24, 1999, 10:11 PM CDT for Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1999, 10:11 PM CDT (03:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1999, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Reeves County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 826 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WFUS1 KMAF 250315 RRA TORMAF TXC389-250400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND-ODESSA TX 1011 PM CDT MON MAY 24 1999 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN REEVES COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT * AT 1007 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF TOYAH LAKE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...TOYAH LAKE PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD SEEK SAFE SHELTER NOW LAT...LON 3137 10345 3112 10360 3101 10339 3125 10317
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Presidio | 58 min |
| May 24, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 58 min |
| May 24, 8:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster, Jeff Davis, Presidio | 3 hr |
| May 24, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 59 min |
| May 24, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Presidio | 30 min |
| May 24, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving, Reeves | 52 min |
| May 24, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 59 min |
| May 24, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 44 min |
| May 24, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 62 min |
| May 24, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 49 min |
| May 24, 9:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 38 min |
| May 24, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 63 min |
| May 24, 10:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 63 min |
| May 24, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin, Midland | 39 min |
| May 24, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 45 min |
| May 24, 11:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 3 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.