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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 2000, 6:28 PM CDT for Reagan County, 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
- May 25, 2000, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Reagan County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -494 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2989 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMAF 252329
FFWMAF
TXC383-260230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
628 PM CDT THU MAY 25 2000
THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
REAGAN COUNTY IN TEXAS
* UNTIL 930 PM CDT
* AT 625 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR STILES WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...
NORTH REAGAN FIRE STATION...STILES AND TEXON. THIS WARNING
INCLUDES THE CENTRALIA DRAW AND THE HIGH LONESOME DRAW.
THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL HAVE BEEN PERSISTING OVER CENTRAL
REAGAN COUNTY FOR OVER AN HOUR...IN THE VICINITY OF STILES. HEAVY
RAIN FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING ALONG LOCAL ROADS
AND NORMALLY DRY CREEKS AND DRAWS. FLASH FLOODING WILL LIKELY OCCUR
ALONG THE CENTRALIA AND HIGH LONESOME DRAW...IN ADDITION TO OTHER
SMALLER CREEKS AND DRAWS...ESPECIALLY THOSE IN CENTRAL REGAN COUNTY.
MOTORISTS ARE REMINDED TO NEVER DRIVE INTO A FLOODED STRETCH OF
ROAD. THE DEPTH OF WATER MAY BE ENOUGH TO FLOAT YOUR VEHICLE.
LAT...LON 3143 10167 3131 10176 3120 10172 3134 10145
3165 10131 3165 10159
DJKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 48 min |
| May 25, 5:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Gaines | 24 min |
| May 25, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 47 min |
| May 25, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Dawson | 24 min |
| May 25, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Dawson | 32 min |
| May 25, 6:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson | 3 hr |
| May 25, 6:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 3 hr |
| May 25, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 50 min |
| May 25, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Borden | 49 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.