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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 12, 2000Brewster County, Jeff Davis County, Presidio County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 2000, 7:55 PM CDT for Brewster County, Jeff Davis County, Presidio 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 12, 2000, 7:55 PM CDT (00:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2000, 10:55 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Brewster County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Presidio County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 233 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:54 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 233 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 2000-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1141 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 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
1141 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1575 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 130056
FFWMAF
TXC043-243-377-130355-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
755 PM CDT MON JUN 12 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN BREWSTER COUNTY IN TEXAS
  SOUTHEASTERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY IN TEXAS
  NORTHEASTERN PRESIDIO COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 1055 PM CDT

* AT 745 PM CDT...THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE IN ALPINE REPORTED WATER OVER HIGHWAY
  118...5 MILES NORTH OF ALPINE. HIGHWAY 118 HAS BEEN CLOSED 5 MILES
  NORTH OF ALPINE. 
  

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...   
  PAISANO PASS...MARFA...FORT DAVIS AND ALPINE...UNITED STATES
  HIGHWAY 90 FROM MARFA TO ALPINE...TEXAS HIGHWAY 17 ADJACENT TO
  FORT DAVIS.

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

TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.

LAT...LON 3028 10421 3005 10369 3062 10343 3082 10379

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.