Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998

Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 21, 1998Dawson County, Martin County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 21, 1998, 7:33 PM CDT for Dawson County, Martin County, Texas. It was in force for 117 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
Jun 21, 1998, 7:33 PM CDT (00:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1998, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
117 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Dawson County, TX, Martin County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 68 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1998-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2073 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1998-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2073 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3023 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson, Martin48 min
Jun 21, 7:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFDawson, Martin2 hr
Jun 21, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin46 min
Jun 21, 8:11 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFMartin34 min
Jun 21, 9:00 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFDawson35 min
Jun 21, 9:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward35 min
Jun 22, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWard34 min
Jun 22, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos34 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.