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Flash Flood Warning 51, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 12, 1999Scurry County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 1999, 3:08 AM CDT for 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 1999, 3:08 AM CDT (08:08 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 1999, 6:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Scurry County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 150 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

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 Jun 11, 9:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 9:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 8 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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 12, 2:47 AM CDT, 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
247 AM CDT SAT JUN 12 1999

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0323 PM    2 E SARAGOSA              TX   1 INCH HAIL
06/11/99   REEVES

0435 PM    7 S SARAGOSA              TX   1.50 INCH HAIL
06/11/99   REEVES                         HAIL FELL FROM 435 TO
                                          455 PM

0532 PM    7 W JAL                   NM   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/11/99   LEA

0625 PM    17 NW FRANKEL CITY        TX   2.25 INCH HAIL
06/11/99   ANDREWS                        NICKEL TO OCNL LEMON
                                          SIZED HAIL

0815 PM    26 SW FORT STOCKTON       TX   .75 INCH HAIL
06/11/99   PECOS

0852 PM    40 S FORT STOCKTON        TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/11/99   PECOS

0900 PM    MESQUITE                  TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/11/99   BORDEN                         POWERLINES DOWN IN MESQUITE

0901 PM    15 NW GAIL                TX   FLASH FLOODING
06/11/99   BORDEN                         ONE FOOT OF WATER COVERING
                                          FM 1054

0920 PM    FLUVANNA                  TX   .75 INCH HAIL
06/11/99   SCURRY

0920 PM    FLUVANNA                  TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/11/99   SCURRY                         HIGH WIND...HAIL CAR BLOWN
                                          OFF THE ROAD

0940 PM    8 W SNYDER                TX   .75 INCH HAIL
06/11/99   SCURRY

0942 PM    21 SE GAIL                TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/11/99   BORDEN                         ROOF BLOWN OFF HOUSE

0943 PM    21 SE GAIL                TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/11/99   BORDEN                         POWER LINES DOWN NEAR LAKE
                                          JB THOMAS

0945 PM    5 W SNYDER                TX   FLASH FLOODING
06/11/99   SCURRY                         18 INCHES OF WATER OVER
                                          HWY 180

1010 PM    4 S SNYDER                TX   .75 INCH HAIL
06/11/99   SCURRY

1015 PM    8 SW SNYDER               TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/11/99   SCURRY

1029 PM    2 S SNYDER                TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/11/99   SCURRY

1215 AM    FLUVANNA                  TX   FLASH FLOODING
06/12/99   SCURRY                         WATER MAKING ROADS
                                          IMPASSABLE

0146 AM    SNYDER                    TX   FLASH FLOODING
06/12/99   SCURRY                         WATER COVERING HWY 84 FROM
                                          DERMOTT TO SNYDER

RSB

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, 9:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBorden, Scurry3 hr
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, 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

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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.