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Tornado Warning 48, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1999, 10:29 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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 26, 1999, 10:29 PM CDT (03:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1999, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Pecos 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 26, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 2444 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1347 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999
WFUS1 KMAF 270330 RRA
TORMAF
TXC371-270400-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND-ODESSA TX
1029 PM CDT WED MAY 26 1999
THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN PECOS COUNTY IN TEXAS
* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
* AT 1026 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 17 MILES WEST OF
GIRVIN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM INCLUDE...
GIRVIN...AND PORTIONS OF INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN FORT STOCKTON AND
BAKERSFIELD.
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM.
MOTORISTS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD ABANDON VEHICLES FOR MORE
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER TAKE COVER IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. AS A
LAST RESORT...TAKE COVER IN A DITCH OR CULVERT. PROTECT YOUR HEAD AND
BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS
IF YOU SPOT A TORNADO...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND
ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 3125 10266 3110 10280 3092 10278 3088 10244
3105 10233
DJKWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at May 26, 9:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 9:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 903 PM CDT WED MAY 26 1999 AFTER A RESPITE YESTERDAY...ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE CONVECTION IS UNDERWAY FOR THIS PORTION OF W-TEXAS AND SE-NEW MEXICO. THUS FAR THIS EVENING...HAVE HAD REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL FROM A LEFT MOVING STORM OVER ODESSA...LARGE HAIL FROM A TORNADIC RIGHT MOVER NEARING MONAHANS. ALSO HAVE OTHER REPORTS FROM EARLIER STORMS OVER SE/NM. WW 324 SEVERE BOX FOR NEW MEXICO HAS EXPIRED AT 02Z...WITH CALMER WX EXPECTED FOR THOSE PARTS. TIMING ON BOXES FOR CURRENT TX BOXES LOOKS OK. 01Z SURFACE MAP INDICATED A NORTH/SOUTH TROF ALONG EASTERN NM TO THE WEST OF FST. A PREVAILING NELY LOW-LEVEL FLOW SHOULD PREVAIL ACROSS THE PERMIAN BASIN AND SE NM. NOT ENUF TIME FOR FURTHER DETAILS. WILL REVIEW ALL FORECASTS AND WILL SEND UPDATES AS NEEDED. RSB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 30 min |
| May 26, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Loving, Reeves | 26 min |
| May 26, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Loving | 35 min |
| May 26, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 49 min |
| May 26, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Loving | 49 min |
| May 26, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Midland | 59 min |
| May 26, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving, Ward, Winkler | 44 min |
| May 26, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector | 41 min |
| May 26, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ward, Winkler | 33 min |
| May 26, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Midland | 51 min |
| May 26, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 51 min |
| May 26, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos, Ward | 43 min |
| May 26, 9:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Martin, Midland | 2 hr |
| May 26, 9:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos, Ward | 34 min |
| May 26, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos, Ward | 30 min |
| May 26, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 57 min |
| May 26, 11:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 39 min |
| May 27, 12:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 45 min |
| May 27, 12:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 30 min |
| May 27, 1:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 117 min |
| May 27, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 57 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.