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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 31, 2000, 6:05 PM CST for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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 31, 2000, 6:05 PM CST (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2000, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Midland County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 930 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 478 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMAF 010005 FFWMAF TXC329-010400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 605 PM CST FRI MAR 31 2000 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MIDLAND COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 1000 PM CST * AT 601 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHERN MIDLAND COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THIS ACTIVITY IS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE... MISSION DORADO...VALLEY VIEW...MIDLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT... WARFIELD...GREENWOOD...SPRABERRY...AND MIDLAND THE GROUND OVER SOUTHERN MIDLAND COUNTY IS ALREADY SATURATED FROM PREVIOUS RAINFALL. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL ONLY MAKE MATTERS WORSE. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. LAT...LON 3168 10228 3167 10180 3208 10178 3207 10228 RSB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 6:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 48 min |
| Mar 31, 6:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 29 min |
| Mar 31, 7:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 63 min |
| Mar 31, 10:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 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.