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Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 17, 2000Brewster County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 2000, 7:25 PM CDT for Brewster 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 17, 2000, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 2000, 10:25 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Brewster County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 238 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2604 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 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
2604 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1502 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 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 180030
FFWMAF
TXC043-180325-

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

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1025 PM CDT

* AT 722 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
  A LARGE AREA OF MODERATE RAINFALL...WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS
  WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER ALL OF BREWSTER COUNTY.  THESE 
  STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...   
  TERLINGUA RANCH LODGE...ALTUDA...PERSIMMON GAP...TERLINGUA...STUDY
  BUTTE...PANTHER JUNCTION...MARATHON...CHISOS BASIN AND ALPINE

THE GROUND IN THIS AREA IS ALREADY SATURATED FROM PREVIOUS RAINS.
THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL ONLY MAKE MATTERS WORSE.

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 SUBJEbCT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

PV

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 3:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFTerrell4 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.