2 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 221 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:05 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Winds from a collapsing thunderstorm damaged the hospital exhibit building at the Fort Davis National Historic Site. A sixty foot section of the porch along with columns and a 12-foot overhang for the porch were all thrown on top of the roof of the structure.
Downbursting thunderstorm winds gusted to 58 mph at a radio station in Alpine.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, May 1998
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5652570, 5652571.