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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 22, 2000Andrews County, Gaines County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 22, 2000, 1:56 AM CST for Andrews County, Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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, 1:56 AM CST (07:56 UTC)
Expired: Mar 22, 2000, 4:00 AM CST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Andrews County, TX, Gaines County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:56 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 61 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: 14 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3806 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 220800
FFWMAF
TXC003-165-221000-

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

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN ANDREWS COUNTY IN TEXAS
  EASTERN GAINES COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 400 AM CST

* AT 155 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR...SATELLITE...AND WEATHER SPOTTERS
  REPORTED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS NEAR SEMINOLE...WITH
  MORE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING SOUTHERN ECTOR COUNTY.  MOVEMENT IS
  NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE... 
  CEDAR LAKE...THE FAIRVIEW COMMUNITY...LOOP...FLOREY...  SEMINOLE 
  AND ANDREWS

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.

DURING THE DARKNESS OF NIGHT...FLOODED SECTIONS OF ROAD MAY NOT BE
VISIBLE TO MOTORISTS. SOME ROADWAYS MAY EVEN BE CLOSED.

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

LAT...LON 3211 10269 3209 10224 3294 10221 3293 10267

RSB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 21, 7:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	51 min
Mar 21, 7:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Scurry	42 min
Mar 21, 7:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	31 min
Mar 21, 11:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	67 min
Mar 22, 12:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ward, Winkler	65 min
Mar 22, 12:21 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Ward, Winkler	54 min
Mar 22, 12:38 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Andrews	37 min
Mar 22, 12:46 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Ector	44 min
Mar 22, 12:49 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	2 hr
Mar 22, 12:54 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Gaines	36 min
Mar 22, 12:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	65 min
Mar 22, 1:09 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Winkler	36 min
Mar 22, 1:20 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Ector	55 min
Mar 22, 1:32 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	58 min
Mar 22, 2:08 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector	52 min
Mar 22, 2:40 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Ector	3 hr
Mar 22, 2:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Martin, Midland	63 min
Mar 22, 3:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	48 min
Mar 22, 4:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	45 min
Mar 22, 4:18 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Martin	117 min
Mar 22, 4:23 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Andrews	2 hr
Mar 22, 4:30 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Gaines	2 hr
Mar 22, 4:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson	62 min
Mar 22, 5:33 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Dawson	3 hr
Mar 22, 1:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	30 min
Mar 22, 2:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	45 min
Mar 22, 2:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	40 min
Mar 22, 2:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Upton	31 min
Mar 22, 3:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Upton	30 min
Mar 22, 3:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden	29 min
Mar 22, 3:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin, Midland	49 min
Mar 22, 3:53 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos, Upton	3 hr
Mar 22, 3:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	37 min
Mar 22, 4:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland	42 min
Mar 22, 4:22 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland	3 hr
Mar 22, 4:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Upton	46 min
Mar 22, 4:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	52 min
Mar 22, 4:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	43 min
Mar 22, 4:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock	51 min
Mar 22, 5:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	44 min
Mar 22, 5:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Upton	26 min
Mar 22, 5:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos	52 min
Mar 22, 5:34 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Crane, Glasscock, Midland, Pecos, Upton	2 hr
Mar 22, 5:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Howard	33 min
Mar 22, 5:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland	46 min
Mar 22, 5:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Mitchell	37 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.