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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 10, 2000Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 2000, 4:39 PM CDT for Pecos 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
Jun 10, 2000, 4:39 PM CDT (21:39 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 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 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 158 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 132 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
132 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-259 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1306 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 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 102144
FFWMAF
TXC371-110045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
439 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 437 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SLOW 
  MOVING THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  FORT STOCKTON ALONG AND ADJACENT TO UNITED STATES HIGHWAY 285.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...
  UNITED STATES HIGHWAY 285
  FARMER TO MARKET ROAD 2023

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

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.

LAT...LON 3048 10284 3033 10251 3072 10233 3084 10251

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, 9:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos, Terrell4 hr
Jun 9, 10:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster61 min
Jun 9, 11:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFReagan4 hr
Jun 10, 6:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBrewster, Pecos4 hr
Jun 10, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster60 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.