Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches in 1999
Tornado Watch 105
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 2, 1999, 9:00 PM CST for Jackson County, Tillman County, Oklahoma; 42 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 1999, 9:00 PM CST (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1999, 2:00 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties
Jackson County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Baylor County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Childress County, TX, Coke County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Upton County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 9:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Midland | 32 min |
| Apr 2, 9:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Garza | 44 min |
| Apr 2, 9:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 61 min |
| Apr 2, 9:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 50 min |
| Apr 2, 9:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 61 min |
| Apr 2, 9:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 39 min |
| Apr 2, 9:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 47 min |
| Apr 2, 9:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 49 min |
| Apr 2, 9:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 53 min |
| Apr 2, 9:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 65 min |
| Apr 2, 10:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 49 min |
| Apr 2, 10:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 31 min |
| Apr 2, 11:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 48 min |
| Apr 2, 11:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 46 min |
| Apr 2, 11:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Hardeman, Knox | 46 min |
| Apr 2, 11:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 48 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 262 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3070 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 8:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 12:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 32 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 3, 3:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Haskell, McIntosh and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 3, 7:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bryan, Choctaw, McCurtain | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 12:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | LeFlore, McCurtain | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Hardin, Jasper, Liberty, Montgomery, Nacogdoches and 9 more | 5 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.