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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 2, 2000Gaines County, Texas; Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 2000, 1:29 AM CDT for Gaines County, Texas; Lea County, New Mexico. 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: Jun 2, 2000, 1:29 AM CDT (06:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2000, 5:00 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Lea County, NM, Gaines County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 1227 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1254 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 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 020633
FFWMAF
NMC025-TXC165-021000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1229 AM MDT FRI JUN 2 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO
  GAINES COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 400 AM MDT (500 AM CDT)

* AT 1227 AM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 5 MILES SOUTH OF NADINE...MOVING
  SOUTH AT 20 MPH.  RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE RAINFALL IN THE AMOUNT  
  OF 1-3 INCHES PER HOUR IS FALLING IN THE STRONGER STORMS.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...   
  CEDAR LAKE...FAIRVIEW...OIL CENTER...KNOWLES...BUCKEYE...HUMBLE
  CITY...MONUMENT...NADINE...ASHMORE...LOOP...HIGGINBOTHAM...PAYNES
  CORNER...SEMINOLE...SEAGRAVES...HOBBS AND EUNICE

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.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

LAT...LON 3294 10377 3252 10367 3218 10369 3218  10310
          3255 10311 3253 10223 3294 10224

MARTIN

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.