Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
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.
- 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
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
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.