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Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 2000, 10:28 PM CDT for Jeff Davis County, Reeves 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 20, 2000, 10:28 PM CDT (03:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2000, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jeff Davis County, TX, Reeves County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 193 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:17 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 943 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1848 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMAF 210329
FFWMAF
TXC243-389-210630-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1028 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2000
THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY IN TEXAS
SOUTHWESTERN REEVES COUNTY IN TEXAS
* UNTIL 130 AM CDT
* THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT
NORTHERN JEFF DAVIS AND SOUTHWESTERN REEVES COUNTIES...
GENERALLY WEST OF HIGHWAY 17 FROM BALMORHEA SOUTH TO FORT
DAVIS...THROUGH 100 AM.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...
TOYAVALE AND BALMORHEA
RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF THREE INCHES WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING
OF ARROYOS...DRAWS...AND OTHER LOW AREAS.
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.
DURING THE DARKNESS OF NIGHT...FLOODED SECTIONS OF ROAD MAY NOT BE
VISIBLE TO MOTORISTS. SOME ROADWAYS MAY EVEN BE CLOSED. DO NOT DRIVE
AROUND BARRICADES.
LAT...LON 30k93 10433 3066 10407 3089 10376 3110 10370
3128 10388 3110 10407
70The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving, Ward, Winkler | 63 min |
| Jun 20, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 63 min |
| Jun 20, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 66 min |
| Jun 20, 11:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Presidio | 3 hr |
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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.