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Flash Flood Warning 51, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 22, 2000Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 2000, 3:41 PM MDT for Lea 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 22, 2000, 3:41 PM MDT (21:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 2000, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lea County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 200 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 244 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 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
244 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-175 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1079 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 222142
FFWMAF
NMC025-230100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
341 PM MDT THU JUN 22 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN LEA COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 700 PM MDT

* AT 341 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 16 MILES SOUTH OF CAPROCK.
  ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED 12 MILES 
  EAST OF CAPROCK. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...   
  CROSSROADS...CAPROCK...MCDONALD AND TATUM

BETWEEN 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS PORTIONS OF 
NORTHWESTERN LEA COUNTY. THESE RAINS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF
DRAWS...STREAMS...AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MA4Y BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 3339 10371 3339 10375 3298 10375 3298 10332
          3356 10314 3356 10371

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 6:30 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy3 hr

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.