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Flash Flood Warning 80, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 2, 1999, 7:46 PM CDT for Culberson 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
- Jul 2, 1999, 7:46 PM CDT (00:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1999, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Culberson County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:47 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
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4273 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 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 030050 FFWMAF TXC109-030345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND-ODESSA TX 746 PM CDT FRI JUL 2 1999 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN CULBERSON COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 743 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 4 MILES NORTH OF PINE SPRINGS... MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE... DOG CANYON...MCKITTRICK CANYON AND PINE SPRINGS. HIKERS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS ANY FLOODED WASHES. A FOOT OF SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER CAN EASILY SWEEP YOU OFF YOUR FEET. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND AND WAIT FOR THE FLOODWATERS TO RECEDE. TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. LAT...LON 3179 10493 3182 10454 3199 10455 3199. 10493 SD
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 Jul 2, 6:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 6:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 615 PM CDT FRI JUL 2 1999 WIND SPEEDS UNDER FORECASTED... WILL ISSUE UPDATE TO RAISE WIND SPEEDS FROM PECOS COUNTY NORTHWARD. 72
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson | 64 min |
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.