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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 28, 1999Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 1999, 11:45 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 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 28, 1999, 11:45 PM MDT (05:45 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1999, 2:00 AM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Lea County, NM

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 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 1999-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1308 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 1999-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1308 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
293 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
6.9

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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 28, 8:30 PM MDT, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 8:30 PM MDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
930 PM CDT FRI MAY 28 1999

NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE MOUNTAINOUS AREAS OF
SOUTHWEST TEXAS THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS.  SOME
STORMS WERE/ARE MARGINALLY SEVERE WITH SEVERAL REPORTS OF DIME SIZE
HAIL AND ONE REPORT OF A 70 MPH WIND GUST.  RADAR/SATELLITE
INDICATE LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM S CNTL NM TO
TERRELL COUNTY.  THIS AREA IS SLOWLING MOVING EAST.  PCPN POPS IN
ZONES SEEM REASONABLE DUE TO TIMELY UPDATES BY WSFO LBB.  OVERNIGHT
FFA FOR SW TEXAS REMAINS APPROPRIATE.  FURTHER CHANGES TO ZONES NOT
RECOMMENDED AT THIS TIME.

SD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 9:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy41 min
May 28, 9:22 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy3 hr
May 28, 9:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy51 min
May 28, 11:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea45 min
May 29, 5:09 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFEddy36 min
May 29, 5:38 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFEddy52 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.