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Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 2000, 3:18 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. 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 19, 2000, 3:18 PM MDT (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2000, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Eddy County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 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
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 499 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMAF 192131
FFWMAF
NMC015-200015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
318 PM MDT MON JUN 19 2000
THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN EDDY COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO
* UNTIL 615 PM MDT
* AT 330 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 14 MILES WEST OF ARTESIA...JUST
NORTH OF THE COMMUNITY OF HOPE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...
AREAS DOWNSTREAM ON EAGLE CREEK FROM HOPE...AREAS ALONG COTTONWOOD
CANYON CREEK NORTH OF HOPE AND THEN DOWNSTREAM...AND AREAS ALONG
UNITED STATES HIGHWAY 82 BETWEEN HOPE AND ARTESIA TO THE
INTERSECTION WITH UNITED STATES HIGHWAY 285.
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE CONTINUED TO REDEVELOP JUST NORTH OF THE
COMMUNITY OF HOPE. THIS HAS PRODUCED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND
COULD RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING ALONG EAGLE AND COTTONWOOD
CREEKS...IN NORTHERN EDDY COUNTY.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION!
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 RISINGL.
LAT...LON 3288 10480 3260 10479 3257 10427 3293 10413
3294 10474The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 5:38 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 5:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 38 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.