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Flash Flood Warning 61, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 1999, 5:23 PM CDT for Andrews County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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 19, 1999, 5:23 PM CDT (22:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1999, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Andrews County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 877 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 774 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 19, 2:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 2:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 242 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 1999 TSRA ALREADY FIRING ALG MTNS IN RESPONSE TO INSOLATION AND SLOW MOVG H5 SHRTWV OVER SRN N.M. NOTICEABLE IN WV STLT IMAGERY. WESTERLIES RMN NORTH OF AREA THRU PD WITH NGM ODD MDL OUT ON STRENGTH AND POSITION OF H5 SHRTWV. CONSIDERING CONSENSUS OF OTHER MDLS WITH THIS FEATURE AND ACTIVITY ALREADY DVLPG...HAVE DECIDED TO GO WITH HIER CHC TSRA THAN PREVIOUS FCST. REALLY NO SFC BNDRY FOR ACTIVITY TO FOCUS ON AND LTL H7-H5 Q VECTOR CONVERGENCE THRU PD. HOWEVER...INCREASING H85 MSTR...DESTABILIZING ATMOSPHERE DURG EACH AFTN...RESIDUAL SFC BOUNDARIES AND SLOW MOVEMENT OF H5 SHRTWV ARND RDG APPEARS TO BE ENUF TO UP POPS THRU PD. HAVE KEPT CHC LOWER ACRS ERN COUNTIES TNGT...BUT INCREASED SUN THRU MON AS SHRTWV SETTLES ACRS REST OF AREA. SVR THREAT APPEARS MINIMAL AS TSRA LOOK TO STAY UNORGANIZED IN WEAK MID TO UPR WIND REGIME. HEAVY RAIN GOOD POSSIBILITY IN AND ARND MTNS WITH SLOW MOVG CELLS. AFTER COORD WITH LBB AND SINCE HEAVIER PCPN HAS BEEN SPOTTY OVER SWRN ZNS...WILL HOLD OFF ON FFA. LOOKS LIKE WE MAY BE STUCK WITH THIS FEATURE UNTIL STRONGER SHRTWV PASSES ACRS CNTRL PLAINS BY MIDWEEK AND HELPS PROPAGATE SHRTWV EWD. MDL GUIDANCE OUTPUT VERY SIMILAR AND WILL STICK CLOSE. GOOD BET MAINLY SELY WINDS PREVAIL MOST CWA THRU PD. MAF 67/84/66/87 2344 CNM 66/86/65/90 5432 MRF 58/81/59/83 7555 P07 68/85/68/83 5555 AKL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 46 min |
| Jun 19, 6:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 5:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 110 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.