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Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 20, 2000Jeff Davis County, Reeves County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 943 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 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
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

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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


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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 10:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving, Ward, Winkler63 min
Jun 20, 10:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves63 min
Jun 20, 11:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos66 min
Jun 20, 11:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPresidio3 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.