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Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 17, 2000Presidio County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 2000, 1:45 PM CDT for 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 17, 2000, 1:45 PM CDT (18:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 2000, 4:45 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Presidio County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 287 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2000-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 57 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2000-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 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
57 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-268 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2783 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 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 171848
FFWMAF
TXC377-172145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
145 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  PRESIDIO COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT

* AT 136 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED   
  NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS..WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...ACROSS PRESIDIO COUNTY.  
  THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...   
  BIG BEND RANCH STATE PARK...RYAN...CASA PIEDRA...CANDELARIA...
  RUIDOSA...SHAFTER...REDFORD...PRESIDIO AND MARFA...FARMER TO 
  MARKET 2810...TEXAS ROUTE 17

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...UNDERPASSES...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.

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

LAT...LON 3064 10515 2871 10385 3032 10381 3047 10431

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster, Presidio59 min
Jun 17, 3:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBrewster4 hr
Jun 17, 4:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPresidio6 hr

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.