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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT for Reagan County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min. 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 9, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Reagan County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:34 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2278 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 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 100135 FFWMAF TXC383-100230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 830 PM CDT FRI JUN 9 2000 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN REAGAN COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 830 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A LINE OF SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL ACROSS THE EASTERN SECTION OF THE COUNTY. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE... OPEN COUNTRY OF EASTERN REAGAN COUNTY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOOB GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3123 10155 3122 10131 3164 10130 3165 10154
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 44 min |
| Jun 9, 8:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reagan | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 65 min |
| Jun 9, 9:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard, Mitchell | 6 hr |
| Jun 9, 9:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 61 min |
| Jun 9, 11:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reagan | 4 hr |
| Jun 10, 4:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 6:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos | 4 hr |
| Jun 10, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 60 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.