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Flash Flood Warning 104, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

September 5, 1999Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 5, 1999, 5:08 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 5, 1999, 5:08 PM MDT (23:08 UTC)
Expired: Sep 5, 1999, 8:15 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lea County, NM

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The text

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

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Sep 5, 2:42 PM MDT, 2 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 5, 2:42 PM MDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 4, 8:51 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Gaines	3 hr
Sep 5, 12:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	50 min
Sep 5, 2:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	50 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 1999 Every flash flood warning in 1999

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.