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Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 14, 1999Pecos County, Reeves County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 1999, 10:28 AM CDT for Pecos County, Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 6 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 14, 1999, 10:28 AM CDT (15:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1999, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Pecos County, TX, Reeves County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:26 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 138 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 1999-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 16 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 1999-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 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
16 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1137 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 141541 COR
FFWMAF
TXC371-389-142130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED THE PRODUCT ID FROM LBBFLWMAF TO LBBFFWMAF
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND-ODESSA TX
1028 AM CDT MON JUN 14 1999

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  PECOS COUNTY IN TEXAS
  REEVES COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT

* AT 1026 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED AN         
  AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER PECOS AND          
  REEVES COUNTIES. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE 
  NORTHWEST. 

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...     
  TOYAH LAKE...VERHALEN...SARAGOSA...BELDING...IMPERIAL...           
  COYANOSA...FORT STOCKTON AND BALMORHEA.

ALL INTERESTS ALONG COYANOSA DRAW SHOULD EXPECT RAPIDLY RISING WATER 
AS CREEKS AND ARROYOS TO THE SOUTH ARE RUNNING AT FULL CAPACITY AND 
WILL DRAIN INTO COYANOSA DRAW.  INTERESTS ALONG THE PECOS RIVER 
SHOULD EXPECT RISING WATER CONDITIONS THERE AS WELL. 

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.

DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN SWIM OR PLAY NEAR FLOOD WATERS.

TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SrERVICE OFFICE.

MARTIN

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 14, 3:39 AM CDT, 6 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 3:39 AM CDT, 6 hours 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
339 AM CDT MON JUN 14 1999

IR AND WV STLT IMAGERY SHOWING H5 LOW SPINNING OVER ECNTRL NM THIS
MORNING...GENERALLY MAKING SLOW EWD PROGRESS.  TSRA CONT TO DVLP IN
AREA OF LOW LVL CONVERGENCE ACRS SE NM...SWD ALG GUADALUPES /TRANS
PECOS...INTO BIG BEND AND WRN PB.  THE NRN EXTENT ALSO ASSOCIATED
WITH PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED WK H5 LOW AND LATTER EXTENSION OF
CONVECTION OVER OLD MEXICO.

XPC WK H5 LOW WILL CONT WEAKENING AND FILL IN AS H25 JET PULLS NEWD.
ADDITIONAL H5 SHRTWV ENERGY TO SETTLE ACRS CWA THRU PD...BUT RMNS
WEAK AND SHEARED.  HAVE INCLUDED POPS DECREASING FM SW TO NE ACRS
CWA...WITH MORNING WORDING FOR NERN COUNTIES.  THINK BEST CHC PCPN
WILL RMN WWD AND SWD DURG REST OF PD AS HIGH PRES FM H7 TO SFC AND
ISENTROPIC DOWNGLIDE TAKE CONTROL NERN TWO/THIRDS CWA BEGINNING THIS
AFTN.  WILL GO WITH GRADUALLY LOWER POPS LATTER PDS ALG MTNS...BIG
BEND AND EWD AS SFC BNDRY AND DAYTIME HEATING COULD COMBINE TO
PRODUCE ACTIVITY...SPCLY AFTN/EVNG.  LEFT MINIMAL POPS IN SWRN
TWO/THIRDS CWA TUE NGT.

CAA CONT THRU TDY WITH MAF GUIDANCE TEMPS FORECASTING RECORD LOW MAX
FOR TDY.  IF CLD CVR PERSISTS ACRS MOST OF CWA COULD SEE THIS.  FOR
NOW...WILL PLAY IT AS MSTLY CLDY THIS MORNING/PTLY CLDY THIS AFTN ALL
AREAS.  FWC GUIDANCE ALSO TIES RECORD LOW OF 56 DEGREES TNGT...WITH
FAN CLOSE SCND AT 57.  POSSIBILITY WE COULD CLEAR ENUF TNGT FOR SUCH
READINGS...BUT AGAIN FOR NOW WILL STAY CONSERVATIVE AND GO ONE CAT
ABV.  COOL TEMPS FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR PERSIST THRU PD AS HIGH
PRES BEGINS EWD MOVE LATE TUE.  REST OF GUID DOESN/T LOOK TO
UNREASONABLE...SO WILL STICK PRETTY CLOSE.

MAF 75/58/82 3/-/0
CNM 77/56/85 1/0/0
MRF 72/53/77 4/3/2
P07 78/63/80 4/3/2

AKL

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 5:26 AM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-150500-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
525 AM CDT (425 AM MDT) MON JUN 14 1999

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS:
ANDREWS   CULBERSON  GLASSCOCK   MARTIN    REAGAN   UPTON
BORDEN    DAWSON     HOWARD      MIDLAND   REEVES   WARD
BREWSTER  ECTOR      JEFF DAVIS  PECOS     SCURRY   WINKLER
CRANE     GAINES     LOVING      PRESIDIO  TERRELL

AND IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO:
EDDY      LEA

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE MUCH OF THE AREA THIS MORNING
AND BY AFTERNOON THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CONFINED TO AREAS ALONG
AND WEST OF THE PECOS RIVER.  THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS
MINIMAL.

SYNOPSIS:
THE ATMOSPHERE WILL CONTINUE TO BECOME MORE STABLE AS COOLER AND
DRIER AIR INVADES THE AREA IN THE WAKE OF A COLD FRONT.  THE FRONT
WILL REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY ALONG THE FAR SOUTH AND WESTERN AREAS
NEAR A CARLSBAD...TO MARFA...TO DEL RIO LINE. AN UPPER LEVEL
DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST TEXAS FROM NEW MEXICO THIS
MORNING.  AS IT DOES THERE IS A THREAT OF NON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
ACROSS THE PERMIAN BASIN THIS MORNING.  A DISTURBANCE WILL ALSO
APPROACH FROM NORTHERN MEXICO...AND INCREASE THE THUNDERSTORM
CHANCES ALONG THE BIG BEND.

A FEW THESE STORMS MAY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS...BUT A WIDESPREAD
SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK IS NOT LIKELY.

FLASH FLOODING WILL POSE THE BIGGEST THREAT AS THE POTENTIAL FOR
HEAVY RAINS ACROSS SATURATED GROUNDS WILL RESULT IN RAPID RUNOFF AND
POSSIBLE FLOODING.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT.

FOR THE WEST CENTRAL TEXAS OUTLOOK...PLEASE SEE PRODUCT LBBSPSSJT
(WWUS35 KSJT).

SD

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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.