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Flash Flood Warning 63, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 1999, 6:29 PM CDT for Pecos 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 1999, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1999, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Pecos County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 181 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMAF 192329
FFWMAF
TXC371-200230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND-ODESSA TX
629 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 1999
THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY IN TEXAS
* UNTIL 930 PM CDT
* AT 629 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 11 MILES NORTH OF LONGFELLOW...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...
LONGFELLOW
RADAR INDICATES THAT BETWEEN 3 AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN FROM
10 TO 15 MILES NORTH OF LONGFELLOW. AN ADDITIONAL 2 TO 3 INCHES OF
RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE IN THIS AREA.
NEVER DRIVE INTO A FLOODED STRETCH OF ROAD. THE DEPTH OF WATER MAY BE
ENOUGH TO FLOAT YOUR VEHICLE.
TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.
LAT...LON 3032 10295 3007 10258 3029 10257 3029 10240
3059 10240 3067 10272What 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, 6:00 PM CDT, 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 6:00 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 600 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 1999 JUST SENT UPDATED TEXAS ZONES TO RAISE POPS FOR THE PERMIAN BASIN DUE TO INCREASING AREAL COVERAGE OF SHOWER ACTIVITY. OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES ALL OVER THE PLACE...ALONG WITH WEAK STEERING CURRENT SHOULD PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS REGIONWIDE INTO THE EVENING HOURS. SATELLITE DERIVED PRODUCTS A LITTLE SPARSE THIS REGION FROM CLOUD COVER...BUT CAN ASCER@TAIN AT LEAST AN INCH OF PRECIP WATER. THE OTHER ZONES SHOULD HOLD FOR NOW. RSB
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, 5:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews | 2 hr |
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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.