Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000

Flash Flood Warning 46, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 19, 2000Loving County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 2000, 9:35 PM CDT for Loving County, Texas. It was in force for 6 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 19, 2000, 9:35 PM CDT (02:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2000, 3:15 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Loving County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:38 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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 131 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 2000-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1439 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 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
1439 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
8.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 200236
FFWMAF
TXC301-200815-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
935 PM CDT MON JUN 19 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 315 AM CDT

* AT 932 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RED BLUFF
  LAKE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...
  RED BLUFF LAKE...AND FARM TO MARKET ROAD 652.

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE CONTINUED TO REDEVELOP OVER WESTERN PORTIONS OF 
LOVING COUNTY NEAR AND JUST SOUTHEAST OF RED BLUFF LAKE.  RADAR 
ESTIMATED UP TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN THIS AREA DURING THE 
EVENING.  ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL ONLY MAKE FLOODING IN THIS AREA 
WORSE.  MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO AVOID FARM TO MARKET ROAD 652 
TONIGHT.

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.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. 
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS...AND ALONG THE PECOS RIVER 
SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO 
NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN 
DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 7:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.