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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 2000, 6:36 PM CDT for Pecos County, Terrell 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, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 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
Counties Pecos County, TX, Terrell County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 252342 FFWMAF TXC371-443-260230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 636 PM CDT THU MAY 25 2000 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN PECOS COUNTY IN TEXAS NORTHWESTERN TERRELL COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 635 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 15 MILES NORTH OF SANDERSON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THIS WARNING INCLUDES AREAS ALONG DOWNIE DRAW...PYLE DRAW...BIG CANYON...AND MCKAY CREEK. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL HAVE BEEN PERSISTING OVER SOUTHEASTERN PECOS COUNTY AND NORTHWESTERN TERRELL COUNTY FOR OVER AN HOUR. HEAVY RAIN FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLOODING ALONG LOCAL ROADS AND NORMALLY DRY CREEKS AND DRAWS. LOW WATER CROSSINGS ALONG CREEKS AND DRAWS WILL LIKELY BECOME FLOODED. 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. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR OTHER MEDIA SOURCES...FOR THE LATEST UPDATES ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. LAT...LON 3031 10282 3002 10232 3059 10185 3086 10219
The 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, 6:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reagan | 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 |
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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.