Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 1999, 9:04 AM CDT for Borden County, Dawson County, Texas. It was in force for 116 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1999, 9:04 AM CDT (14:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1999, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Borden County, TX, Dawson County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:07 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 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 96 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2728 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 647 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMAF 061408
FFWMAF
TXC033-115-061600-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND-ODESSA TX
904 AM CDT SUN JUN 6 1999
THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
BORDEN COUNTY IN TEXAS
DAWSON COUNTY IN TEXAS
* UNTIL 1100 AM CDT
* AT 855 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHEAST
DAWSON AND NORTHWEST BORDEN COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES 4 TO 5 INCHES
OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN IN THESE AREAS. HIGHWAYS 1054 AND 1210
ARE LIKELY FLOODED
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...
MIDWAY...UNION...GAIL...MESQUITE...KEY...SAND...ARVANA...HANCOCK...
PUNKIN CENTER...GRANDVIEW...PRIDE...WELCH AND LAMESA.
THE GROUND IN THIS AREA IS ALREADY SATURATED FROM PREVIOUS RAINS.
THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL ONLY MAKE MATTERS WORSE.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEME^NT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.
LAT...LON 3268 10219 3257 10169 3263 10120 3294 10119
3294 10219
SDWhat 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 Jun 6, 2:28 AM CDT, 6 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 2:28 AM CDT, 6 hours 36 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 228 AM CDT SUN JUN 6 1999 STRONG CONVECTION ONGOING FAR S ATTM AS TSTMS THAT DEVELOPED WELL S IN MEXICO EARLIER LAST EVENING HAVE BEEN MOVING/DEVELOPING NWD. RECENT TREND HAS BEEN DOWNWARD AND EXPECT THIS CONTINUE...STILL WILL INCLUDE A 20 POP SRN AREAS TO COVER AS DEVELOPMENT APPEARS TO BE E OF MID/UPPER LEVEL TROF AXIS. OTHERWISE LOW LEVEL MSTR PUSHING W WITH DWPNT AT KINK L60S. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY INDICATES WELL DEFINED SHRTWV TROF MOVING E ACROSS SRN NM ATTM WITH ASSOCD MID LEVEL CLOUD DEVELOPMENT. ELEVATED INSTABILITY EXIST E OF SHRTWV TROF (PER RUC SOUNDINGS) SO A LITTLE CONCERNED THAT TSTMS STILL COULD DEVELOP ACROSS PB. MIGHT NEED TO INCLUDE A 20 POP TO COVER BUT WILL LEAVE OUT OF WRK FILE ATTM. GENERALLY WDLY SCT POPS THRU REMAINDER OF FP AS LOW/MID LEVEL MST AXIS REMAINS INVOF MTNS. MONDAY APPEARS TO BE GOOD DAY FOR MTN TSTMS AS 7H THETA-E RIDGE POSITIONED THERE WITH SOUTHEAST WINDS IN ADVANCE OF INCREASING CYCLONIC CURVED MID LEVEL FLOW. NO CHANGES TO EXTENDED. WZIS. MAF 91/68/93/67 -/2/2 CNM 93/65/93/65 -/2/2 MRF 87/57/89/57 2/2/3 P07 90/68/92/69 2/2/2 GPM
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 6:06 AM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-070500- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 605 AM CDT (505 AM MDT) SUN JUN 6 1999 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS: ANDREWS CULBERSON GLASSCOCK MARTIN REAGAN UPTON BORDEN DAWSON HOWARD MIDLAND REEVES WARD BREWSTER ECTOR JEFF DAVIS PECOS SCURRY WINKLER CRANE GAINES LOVING PRESIDIO TERRELL AND IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO: EDDY LEA SYNOPSIS: THE DRYLINE IS LOCATED ALONG A LINE JUST EAST OF HOBBS...NEW MEXICO...TO EAST OF MARFA...TEXAS. THE AIRMASS EAST OF THE DRYLINE WILL BE VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE TODAY. AS THE DAY PROGESSES...THE DRYLINE WILL MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD. A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL ENTER WEST TEXAS AND OVERTAKE THE DRYLINE...AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE ALONG AND EAST OF THE DRYLINE. FORECAST UPPER-AIR SOUNDINGS SUGGEST THE STORMS WILL BE ROTATING AND MULTI-CELLULAR IN NATURE. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...AND LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. FOR THE WEST CENTRAL TEXAS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT LBBSPSSJT. 44
Local storm report, Jun 6, 8:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
800 AM CDT SUN JUN 6 1999
...CORRECTED JUN 5 LSR FOR LOCATION IN 430 PM REPORT...
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
430 PM 15 E FORT STOCKTON TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 PECOS PUBLIC
510 PM 2 N BAKERSFIELD TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 PECOS PUBLIC
518 PM 5 NE BAKERSFIELD TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 PECOS PUBLIC
530 PM 10 N BAKERSFIELD TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 PECOS SPOTTER
604 PM 5 E BAKERSFIELD TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 PECOS SPOTTER
802 PM 15 SE BAKERSFIELD TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 PECOS SPOTTER
900 PM SHEFFIELD TX 2.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 PECOS SPOTTER
900 PM SHEFFIELD TX WIND DAMAGE
06/05/99 PECOS POWER LINES DOWNED
SDLocal storm report, Jun 6, 8:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
800 AM CDT SUN JUN 6 1999
...CORRECTED JUN 5 LSR FOR LOCATION IN 430 PM REPORT...
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
430 PM 15 E FORT STOCKTON TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 PECOS PUBLIC
510 PM 2 N BAKERSFIELD TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 PECOS PUBLIC
518 PM 5 NE BAKERSFIELD TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 PECOS PUBLIC
530 PM 10 N BAKERSFIELD TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 PECOS SPOTTER
604 PM 5 E BAKERSFIELD TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 PECOS SPOTTER
802 PM 15 SE BAKERSFIELD TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 PECOS SPOTTER
900 PM SHEFFIELD TX 2.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 PECOS SPOTTER
900 PM SHEFFIELD TX WIND DAMAGE
06/05/99 PECOS POWER LINES DOWNED
SDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 58 min |
| Jun 5, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 35 min |
| Jun 6, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 52 min |
| Jun 6, 3:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos | 42 min |
| Jun 6, 5:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 50 min |
| Jun 6, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos | 66 min |
| Jun 6, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 69 min |
| Jun 6, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 63 min |
| Jun 6, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 62 min |
| Jun 6, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 53 min |
| Jun 6, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 50 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 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.