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Flash Flood Warning 84, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

July 10, 1999Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 10, 1999, 11:53 AM 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 10, 1999, 11:53 AM MDT (17:53 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 1999, 3:00 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Eddy County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 206 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 82 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1157 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 10, 10:35 AM MDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 10:35 AM MDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1135 AM CDT SAT JUL 10 1999

WILL ISSUE UPDATE FOR THE SOUTH TO INCREASE CLOUD COVER AND BRING
WINDS AROUND TO THE NORTH.  REST OF FORECAST LOOKS GOOD.

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*  THE FOLLOWING SITES WILL BE USED HENCEFORTH FOR COORDINATION   *
*  PURPOSES  BETWEEN NWS OFFICES.  THIS DECODING OF THE 3-LETTER  *
*  IDENTIFIERS WILL BE AVAILABLE UNTIL JULY 15.                   *
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*  MAF  MIDLAND INTL                                              *
*  LSA  LAMESA                                                    *
*  E41  BIG LAKE                                                  *
*  6R6  TERRELL CO. AIRPORT (6E DRYDEN)                           *
*  CNM  CARLSBAD                                                  *
*  MRF  MARFA                                                     *
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 10:04 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Eddy	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 1999 Every 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.