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Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 2000, 6:28 PM CDT for Brewster County, Pecos 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 10, 2000, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2000, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Brewster County, TX, Pecos County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 202 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMAF 102336 ZCZC LBBFFAMAF ALL TTAA00 KMAF 102328 TXC043-371-110330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 628 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 2000 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BREWSTER COUNTY IN TEXAS SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 630 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN BETWEEN UNITED STATES ROUTE 385 AND 285 IN SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY AND ALONG AND ADJACENT TO UNITED STATES ROUTE 90 IN NORTHERN BREWSTER COUNTY NEAR ALPINE AND MARATHON. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE... ALPINE MARATHON UNITED STATES ROUTE 90 IN NORTHERN BREWSTER COUNTY UNITED STATES ROUTES 285 AND 385 IN SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY OPEN COUNTRY OF SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY 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. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. LAT...LON 3026 10380 2975 10289 3077 10229 3075 10330
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 | 60 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, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 60 min |
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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.