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Flash Flood Warning 57, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 12, 1999Upton County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 1999, 6:16 PM CDT for Upton 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, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 1999, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Upton County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 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 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 66 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 12:00Z on 1999-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1382 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 12:00Z on 1999-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 234 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1382 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
803 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
234 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
378 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
11.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSJT 122317
FFWMAF
TXC461-130215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
616 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  UPTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 612 PM CDT... SPOTTERS INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY
  RAIN IN NORTH CENTRAL UPTON COUNTY... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
  ROADWAYS WERE WASHED OUT AT THE INTERSECTION OF FM 2401 AND 2594.
  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN IN NORTH
  CENTRAL UPTON COUNTY SINCE 515 PM CDT.

* AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAINFALL IS LIKELY THROUGH 715 PM CDT
  ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL UPTON COUNTY.

DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THE WATER
DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT FOR SAFE PASSAGE AND THE ROAD UNDERNEATH MAY
NOT BE INTACT.

TPH

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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 12, 2:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 2:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
251 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 1999

WIDELY SCATTERED TSRA HAS REFIRED ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL
PERMIAN BASIN OF WEST TEXAS BEHIND OUTFLOW BOUNDARY IN BEST UPPER
LEVEL DIVERGENCE PER 12Z SAT 20H ANALYSIS. FURTHER SOUTH TSRA IS
FIRING IN DAVIS MOUNTAINS AND STOCKTON PLATEAU ALONG OLD OUTFLOW
BOUNDARY CLEAR SEEN ON VISIBLE SATELLITE. EXPECTING ACTIVITY TO
INCREASE THIS EVENING AND CONTINUE OVERNIGHT IN NORTHERN AND
CENTRAL CWA AS LOW LEVEL AIR MASS GRADUALLY RECOVERS AND SHORT WAVE
ENERGY TRANSLATES EAST FROM NEW MEXICO. ANOTHER MORE COMPACT AND
POTENT SHORT WAVE CLEARLY SEEN ON WATER VAPOR ACROSS CENTRAL ARIZONA
SHOULD ENHANCE LIFT AND DIVERGENCE TONIGHT LEADING TO ORGANIZED
TSRA MOVING ACROSS THE CWA. HAVE KEPT FLASH FLOOD WATCH GOING ACROSS
MUCH OF CWA CONSIDERING SATURATED GROUNDS IN MANY AREAS WITH DECENT
PRECIPITABLE WATERS AND EXTREMELY HIGH 85H DEW POINTS CONTINUING.
HAVE MENTIONED SEVERE WORDING AS WELL WITH DECENT TURNING WITH HEIGHT
ALONG WITH DECENT WESTERLY MID LEVEL FLOW.

PREFER ETA MODEL THIS CYCLE IN BRINGING COOLER AIR...HIGHER PRESSURE
DOWN WESTERN PLAINS PARTICULARLY SUNDAY AND MONDAY AS PERSISTENT
TSRA SHOULD HELP DRAG HIGHER PRESSURES SOUTH. SUBTROPICAL ENERGY
SHOULD CONTINUE MONDAY AND TUESDAY JUDGING BY WATER VAPOR IMAGERY IN
PACIFIC AND WITH EASTERLY UPSLOPE FLOW CONTINUING WILL HAVE CHANCE
OF RW/TSRA.

GUIDANCE TEMPS LOOK IN BALLPARK IN CONTINUED MOIST REGIME.

IN EXTENDED KEPT SLIGHT CHANCE OF TSRA MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY WITH
NEXT SIGNIFICANT COLD FRONT. KEPT CHANCE IN EXTENDED IN
MOUNTAINS...BIG BEND AND WESTERN PERMIAN BASIN DUE TO UPSLOPE FLOW
BEHIND FRONT

MAF 062/080/060/082 633
CNM 062/085/062/085 533
MRF 058/083/059/080 443
P07 070/085/067/085 642

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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, 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, 6:34 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.