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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
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.
- 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
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
DJKWhat 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 49 min |
| Jun 11, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos | 48 min |
| Jun 11, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 39 min |
| Jun 11, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 46 min |
| Jun 11, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos, Terrell | 51 min |
| Jun 11, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 66 min |
| Jun 11, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 35 min |
| Jun 11, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 77 min |
| Jun 12, 12:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 1:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 24 min |
| Jun 12, 3:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Scurry | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 5:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Scurry | 4 hr |
| Jun 12, 7:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 9:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Scurry | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 12:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Scurry | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 1:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 58 min |
| Jun 12, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 63 min |
| Jun 12, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 61 min |
| Jun 12, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 62 min |
| Jun 12, 6:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Upton | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Presidio | 46 min |
| Jun 12, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 62 min |
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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.