Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 78, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 21, 1999, 11:25 PM CDT for Culberson County, Loving County, Reeves 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 21, 1999, 11:25 PM CDT (04:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1999, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Culberson County, TX, Loving County, TX, Reeves County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:27 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
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 21, 10:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 10:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 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, 9:23 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes 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 22, 1:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Loving, Reeves | 4 hr |
| Jun 21, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 43 min |
| Jun 21, 8:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 2 hr |
| Jun 21, 8:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 2 hr |
| Jun 21, 10:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 11:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 4 hr |
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.