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Flash Flood Warning 76, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 21, 1999, 9:23 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. 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 21, 1999, 9:23 PM MDT (03:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1999, 12:30 AM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Eddy County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 186 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:26 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 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 677 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1074 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMAF 220328
FFWMAF
NMC015-220630-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND-ODESSA TX
923 PM MDT MON JUN 21 1999
THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
EDDY COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO
* UNTIL 1230 AM MDT
* AT 925 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS
PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS FROM 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF ARTESIA SOUTH
TO THE STATE LINE 15 MILESSOUTH OF MALAGA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10
TO 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...
...LOCO HILLS...ATOKA...DAYTON...LAKEWOOD...SEVEN RIVERS...
AVALON...OTIS...MALAGA...QUEEN...WHITES CITY...LOVING...
CARLSBAD...AND ARTESIA
THE GROUND IN THIS AREA IS ALREADY SATURATED FROM PREVIOUS RAINS.
THREE TO FIVE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF WESTERN
EDDY COUNTY...AND ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ARE
LIKELY THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS TUESDAY.
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 HIGHEvR GROUND.
DURING THE DARKNESS OF NIGHT...FLOODED SECTIONS OF ROAD MAY NOT BE
VISIBLE TO MOTORISTS. SOME ROADWAYS MAY EVEN BE CLOSED.
LAT...LON 3296 10483 3201 10484 3201 10374 3251 10372
3252 10381 3295 10381What 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 21, 9:04 PM MDT, 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 9:04 PM MDT, 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1004 PM CDT MON JUN 21 1999 ONGOING FLASH FLOOD EVENT PRECLUDES DISCUSSION. UPDATED NM WZIS. LBB LOOKS FINE AT THIS END...70.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 8:23 PM MDT, 1 hour before
NMZ027-028-220330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 922 PM CDT (822 PM MDT) MON JUN 21 1999 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DROPPED 4 TO 5 INCHES OF RAINFALL OVER PARTS OF SOUTHERN EDDY COUNTY...WEST OF A LAKEWOOD TO CARLSBAD TO MALAGA LINE SINCE 530 PM MDT. AT 8 PM MDT...FLOODING WAS REPORTED TO THE SOUTHWEST OF CARLSBAD ON DARK CANYON ROAD, (COUNTY ROAD 408), WITH A FOOT OF WATER REPORTED OVER PORTIONS OF THE ROAD. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS THIS AREA DURING THE REST OF THE EVENING. RESIDENTS ALONG DARK CANYON AND INTO CARLSBAD SHOULD BE ALERT FOR ADDITIONAL WARNINGS OR STATEMENTS. AKL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 6:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 43 min |
| Jun 21, 7:30 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 2 hr |
| Jun 21, 7:56 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 2 hr |
| Jun 21, 10:00 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 1999Every flash flood warning in 1999
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.