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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 22, 20005 counties in Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 22, 2000, 7:40 PM CST for 5 counties in 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: Mar 22, 2000, 7:40 PM CST (01:40 UTC)
Expired: Mar 22, 2000, 11:00 PM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Borden County, TX, Howard County, TX, Martin County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Scurry County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:42 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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 80 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: 111 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -178 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1659 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 290 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 230147
FFWMAF
TXC033-227-317-335-415-230500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
740 PM CST WED MAR 22 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BORDEN COUNTY IN TEXAS
  HOWARD COUNTY IN TEXAS
  MARTIN COUNTY IN TEXAS
  MITCHELL COUNTY IN TEXAS
  SCURRY COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 11 PM CST

* AT 737 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND SATELLITE HAS
  DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE NORTH 
  AND EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN TRAINING
  OVER THE SAME AREA.  RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO THREE INCHES PER
  HOUR HAS BEEN NOTED...WITH LOCALIZED AMOUNTS OF 3-5 INCHES PER
  HOUR POSSIBLE FROM THE HEAVIER SHOWERS.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...
  LAKE J.B. THOMAS...TARZAN...LENORAH...FORSAN...GARDEN CITY...
  BIG SPRING...WESTBROOK...STANTON...SNYDER...LORAINE...IRA...
  DUNN...CUTHBERT...COLORADO CITY...AND COAHOMA.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR OTHER MEDIA SOURCES...FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION.

fLAT...LON 3211 10220 3212 10069 3295 10065 3293 10165
          3251 10165 3250 10219

RSB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 22, 6:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	44 min
Mar 22, 6:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock	24 min
Mar 22, 6:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Upton	51 min
Mar 22, 6:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock	46 min
Mar 22, 6:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	44 min
Mar 22, 6:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Mitchell, Scurry	36 min
Mar 22, 6:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane	56 min
Mar 22, 6:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	46 min
Mar 22, 7:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Howard, Mitchell	43 min
Mar 22, 7:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	44 min
Mar 22, 7:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	57 min
Mar 22, 7:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Mitchell	61 min
Mar 22, 7:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	49 min
Mar 22, 7:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock	49 min
Mar 22, 7:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane	50 min
Mar 22, 8:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	30 min
Mar 22, 8:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	67 min
Mar 22, 8:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	59 min
Mar 22, 8:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	67 min
Mar 22, 9:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	45 min
Mar 22, 9:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	42 min
Mar 22, 9:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	46 min
Mar 22, 10:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland, Upton	48 min
Mar 22, 10:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Reagan	43 min
Mar 22, 10:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard	49 min
Mar 22, 10:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	48 min
Mar 22, 11:00 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Borden, Crane, Glasscock, Howard, Midland, Mitchell and 4 more	4 hr
Mar 22, 11:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock	50 min
Mar 22, 11:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard	47 min
Mar 23, 12:16 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Reagan	44 min
Mar 23, 12:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	40 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.