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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 9, 2000Pecos County, Terrell County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 2000, 9:22 PM CDT for Pecos County, Terrell County, Texas. 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 9, 2000, 9:22 PM CDT (02:22 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2000, 1:15 AM CDT
In force
4 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), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:23 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 175 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 163 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 100227
FFWMAF
TXC371-443-100615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
922 PM CDT FRI JUN 9 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN PECOS COUNTY IN TEXAS
  TERRELL COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 115 AM CDT

* AT 917 PM CDT...A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER REPORTED WATER OVER THE ROADWAY
  ON UNITED STATES ROUTE 285...20 MILES NORTH OF SANDERSON IN EASTERN
  PECOS COUNTY. AT 915 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF 
  SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...FROM
  SHEFFIELD SOUTHWEST TO THE TERRELL GAS PLANT TO SANDERSON.


* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...   
  THE TERRELL GAS PLANT...DRYDEN...SHEFFIELD AND SANDERSON...OPEN
  COUNTRY OF EASTERN PECOS AND TERRELL COUNTIES.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...UNDERPASSES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS...AND NORMALLY
DRY WASHES.

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 3023 10279 2982 10180 3060 10169 3099 10221

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward44 min
Jun 9, 8:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFReagan60 min
Jun 9, 8:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFReagan4 hr
Jun 9, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReagan65 min
Jun 9, 9:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFHoward, Mitchell6 hr
Jun 9, 10:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster61 min
Jun 9, 11:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFReagan4 hr
Jun 10, 4:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos3 hr
Jun 10, 6:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBrewster, Pecos4 hr
Jun 10, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster60 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.