Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 2000, 10:00 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 4 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, 10:00 PM MDT (04:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2000, 2:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lea County, NM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:00 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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMAF 200406
FFWMAF
NMC025-200800-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1000 PM MDT MON JUN 19 2000
THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
LEA COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO
* UNTIL 200 AM MDT
* AT 10 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 7 MILES WEST OF
BUCKEYE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY
RAINS WERE APPROACHING SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY. RAINFALL ESTIMATES OF
2 TO 4 INCHES PER HOUR ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE HEAVIER SHOWERS.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...
OIL CENTER...MALJAMAR...KNOWLES...BUCKEYE...HUMBLE CITY...
MONUMENT...NADINE...HALFWAY...LOVINGTON...JAL...HOBBS AND EUNICE
THE GROUND OVER SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY...HAS BEEN ALREADY SATURATED
FROM PREVIOUS RAINS. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL ONLY MAKE MATTERS
WORSE...ESPECIALLY WEST OF JAL.
RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS
AND STREAMS...UNDERPASSES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS...AND NORMALLY DRY
WASHES.
DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED AREAS. SHALLOW...SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER
CAN WASH A CAR FROM A ROADWAY. ALSO...THE ROADBED MAY NOT BE INTACT
UNDER THE WATER.
DURING THE DARKNESS OF NIGHT...FLOODED SECTIONS OF ROAD MAY NOT BE
VISIBLE TO MOTORISTS. SOME ROADWAYS MAY EVEN BE CLOSED.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR OTHER MEDIA SOURCES...FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION.
THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING EXTENDS THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS
PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY.
LAT...LONF 3312 10374 3296 10374 3296 10380 3254 10380
3253 10369 3201 10370 3201 10308 3313 10307
RSBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 6:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 59 min |
| Jun 19, 10:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 54 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 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.