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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 27, 2000, 7:36 PM CDT for Pecos 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
- Apr 27, 2000, 7:36 PM CDT (00:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2000, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Pecos County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 1322 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2061 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMAF 280041 FFWMAF TXC371-280430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 736 PM CDT THU APR 27 2000 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN PECOS COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 1130 PM CDT * AT 732 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING SLOWLY SOUTH ALONG THE PECOS RIVER BETWEEN IRAAN AND SHEFFIELD. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE... SHEFFIELD...IRAAN...AND LOCATIONS ALONG INTERSTATE 10 NEAR THE PECOS AND CROCKETT COUNTY LINE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. 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 HIGtHER GROUND. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 3092 10206 3069 10195 3067 10180 3091 10187
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 61 min |
| Apr 27, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 52 min |
| Apr 28, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 63 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.