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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 11, 1999Borden County, Scurry County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 1999, 9:10 PM CDT for Borden County, Scurry County, Texas. 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 1999, 9:10 PM CDT (02:10 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 1999, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Borden County, TX, Scurry County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:11 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 126 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 1999-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1134 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 1999-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 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
1134 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2221 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 120210
FFWMAF
TXC033-415-120500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND-ODESSA TX
910 PM CDT FRI JUN 11 1999

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BORDEN COUNTY IN TEXAS
  SCURRY COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT

* AT 905 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED  
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH COPIOUS RAINFALL OVER NORTHERN BORDEN           
  COUNTY...WHICH WERE JUST BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO SCURRY COUNTY. 
      
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...     
  FLUVANNA...GAIL...MESQUITE...AND SNYDER.

SOME AREAS IN NORTHERN SCURRY COUNTY RECEIVED 2 TO 4 INCHES OF 
RAINFALL YESTERDAY. THIS ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO 
CAUSE RAPID FLOODING...ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTHERN SCURRY COUNTY.

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 ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.

LAT...LON 3294 10168 3273 10168 3258 10129 3251 10066
          3296 10067

DJK

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 Jun 11, 9:00 PM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 9:00 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
900 PM CDT FRI JUN 11 1999

UNFORTUNATELY I MUST FORGO THE ISSUANCE OF AFD THIS EVENING DUE TO
ONGOING CONVECTION.

DJK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster, Pecos61 min
Jun 11, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden49 min
Jun 11, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster, Pecos48 min
Jun 11, 8:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFScurry39 min
Jun 11, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden46 min
Jun 11, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster, Pecos, Terrell51 min
Jun 11, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFScurry66 min
Jun 11, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFScurry35 min
Jun 11, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos77 min
Jun 12, 12:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBorden, Scurry3 hr
Jun 12, 1:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFScurry60 min
Jun 12, 1:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden24 min
Jun 12, 3:08 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFScurry3 hr
Jun 12, 5:06 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFScurry4 hr
Jun 12, 7:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBorden, Dawson3 hr
Jun 12, 9:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFScurry3 hr
Jun 12, 12:07 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFScurry6 hr
Jun 12, 1:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBorden, Scurry3 hr
Jun 12, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster58 min
Jun 12, 4:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster63 min
Jun 12, 5:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton61 min
Jun 12, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton62 min
Jun 12, 6:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFUpton3 hr
Jun 12, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPresidio46 min
Jun 12, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReagan62 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.