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Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 1999, 12:15 AM 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 12, 1999, 12:15 AM CDT (05:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1999, 3:15 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), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:16 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 133 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 120518
FFWMAF
TXC033-415-120815-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND-ODESSA TX
1215 AM CDT SAT JUN 12 1999
THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN BORDEN COUNTY IN TEXAS
SCURRY COUNTY IN TEXAS
* UNTIL 315 AM CDT
* AT 1208 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF
FLUVANNA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. HEAVY RAINS WILL MOVE INTO
THE WARNED AREA SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...
RANDALLS CORNER...FLUVANNA...DERMOTT...ARAH...HERMLEIGH AND SNYDER.
THE GROUND IN THIS AREA IS ALREADY SATURATED FROM PREVIOUS RAINS.
RADAR ESTIMATES 4 TO 8 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN IN THE LAST
6 HOURS ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND FLASH FLOODING HAS ALREADY
OCCURRED. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL ONLY MAKE MATTERS WORSE.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODIXNG WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
LAT...LON 3295 10141 3293 10168 3279 10154 3275 10126
3253 10069 3292 10070
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 11, 9:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 9:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 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, 9:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 3 hr |
| 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, 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.