Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 86, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 10, 1999, 4:46 PM CDT for Pecos County, Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 6 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, 4:46 PM CDT (21:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 1999, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pecos County, TX, Terrell County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 102153 FFWMAF TXC371-443-110345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND-ODESSA TX 446 PM CDT SAT JUL 10 1999 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... PECOS COUNTY IN TEXAS TERRELL COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 441 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER EASTERN PECOS COUNTY AND WESTERN TERRELL COUNTY...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE... DRYDEN...LONGFELLOW...GIRVIN...SANDERSON...AND FORT STOCKTON. INTERESTS ALONG INDEPENDENCE CREEK AND SANDERSON CREEK SHOULD BE AWARE OF RAPIDLY RISING WATER. 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 HIGHER GROUND. DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN SWIM OR PLAY NEAR FLOOD WATERS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. MARTIN
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, 2:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 2:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
215 PM CDT SAT JUL 10 1999
THE COLD FRONT REMAINS STRETCHED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE AREA
AND ETA SEEMS TO KEEP IT THERE THROUGH THE PERIOD. FRONT MAY BECOME
FOCAL POINT FOR HEAVY RAIN OVER NEXT 48 HOURS. HOWEVER ONLY A FEW
REPORTS OF LOCALIZED FLOODING RECEIVED FROM STORMS IN CWA... AND
THESE WERE WELL NORTH OF THE FRONT. GENERALLY THE RAIN HAS BEEN
SPOTTY ACROSS THE AREA. KMAF 12Z SOUNDING UNSTABLE WITH PW OVER 1.5
INCHES... SO POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR ADDITIONAL LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...
PROBABLY NEAR THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. CONFIDENCE WANING FOR A GOOD
WIDESPREAD RAIN... WILL TONE DOWN POPS SOMEWHAT BUT LEAVE LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINFALL MENTIONED DOWN SOUTH AND ACROSS MOUNTAINS. THANKS
KLBB FOR COORDINATION. INITIAL NUMBERS FOLLOW... WORK ZONES
SHORTLY.
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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. *
* *
* MAF MIDLAND INTL *
* LSA LAMESA *
* E41 BIG LAKE *
* 6R6 TERRELL CO. AIRPORT (6E DRYDEN) *
* CNM CARLSBAD *
* MRF MARFA *
* *
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MAF 66/87/67/88 5/3/2/2
LSA 64/85/66/87 4/3/2/2
E41 65/86/67/88 5/3/2/2
6R6 72/85/71/89 6/5/4/3
MRF 61/76/61/81 6/5/4/3
CNM 65/85/65/87 5/4/3/2
72In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 10, 1:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
130 PM CDT SAT JUL 10 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1105 PM 6 E CARLSBAD NM FLASH FLOODING
07/10/99 EDDY HWY 605 IMPASSABLE
ROAD WATER DEPTH 3-4 FEET
1240 PM 10 S CARLSBAD NM FLASH FLOODING
07/10/99 EDDY HWY 395 IMPASSABLE
ROAD WATER DEPTH 6 FEET
115 PM ORLA TX FLASH FLOODING
07/10/99 REEVES WATER CROSSING HWY 652
RRF/01The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 5:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Scurry | 5 hr |
| Jul 10, 11:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reeves | 3 hr |
| Jul 10, 2:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Loving | 3 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.