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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 24, 1999Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 1999, 8:08 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
May 24, 1999, 8:08 PM MDT (02:08 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1999, 11:15 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 nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 147 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 1999-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 826 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1999-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 186 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
826 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
186 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
268 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
3.9

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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 May 24, 6:52 PM MDT, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 6:52 PM MDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
752 PM CDT MON MAY 24 1999

CONVECTION COMING TOGETHER WRN AREAS AS TSTMS THAT INITIATED IN
MEXICAN MTNS DRIFTING E/NE WITH MEAN STEERING FLOW. EXPECT TSTMS TO
INCREASE IN COVERAGE...ESPECIALLY W OF PECOS RIVER...AS WELL DEFINED
OUTFLOW BOUNDARY NEARING THE PECOS RIVER LIKELY TO ENHANCE ONGOING
CONVECTION. OTHERWISE N OF THE BOUNDARY TEMPS HAVE COOLED AND
00Z KMAF SOUNDING SHOWING CAPES 1400 J/KG BUT STILL A CAP TO
OVERCOME. ATTM WOULD OPT TO MAINTAIN POPS N/E OF BOUNDARY WITH
UPDATES POSSIBLY LATER.

GPM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 6:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPresidio58 min
May 24, 7:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves58 min
May 24, 7:30 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBrewster, Jeff Davis, Presidio3 hr
May 24, 7:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews59 min
May 24, 7:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPresidio30 min
May 24, 7:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving, Reeves52 min
May 24, 8:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves59 min
May 24, 8:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos44 min
May 24, 8:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster62 min
May 24, 8:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWinkler49 min
May 24, 8:52 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFPecos38 min
May 24, 9:11 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFReeves49 min
May 24, 9:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines63 min
May 24, 9:27 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFPecos63 min
May 24, 10:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin, Midland39 min
May 24, 10:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos45 min
May 24, 10:33 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEctor, Midland3 hr
May 24, 8:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea57 min
May 24, 8:54 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFLea36 min
May 24, 9:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea31 min
May 24, 9:49 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLea3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 1999Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.