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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 2000, 6:22 PM MDT for Eddy 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 2000, 6:22 PM MDT (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2000, 10:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Eddy County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMAF 290026
FFWMAF
NMC015-290415-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
622 PM MDT WED JUN 28 2000
THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
THE NORTHERN HALF OF EDDY COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO
* UNTIL 1015 PM MDT
* AT 622 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN SCATTERED ACROSS THE NORTHERN
HALF OF EDDY COUNTY. STORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST ARE IN NORTHEAST
EDDY COUNTY NEAR LOCO HILLS. MOVEMENT IS NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...
ESPUELA...LOCO HILLS...ATOKA...DAYTON...LAKEWOOD...SEVEN RIVERS...
AVALON...QUEEN AND ARTESIA
MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINS ARE STILL FALLING WEST OF LAKEWOOD...
ATOKA...LAKEWOOD...AND IN SEVEN RIVERS...AND ROCKY ARROYO. EXCESSIVE
RUNOFF FROM RAINS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF THESE CREEKS...
ARROYOS...AND UNDERPASSES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS... OTHER FLASH
FLOODING IS POSSIBLE IN NORTHEAST EDDY COUNTY NEAR LOCO HILLS.
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER
COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A
SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 3213 10483 3226 10458 3247 10422 3249 10383
3297 10381 3293 10479The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 8:33 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 4 hr |
| Jun 28, 10:15 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 12:19 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 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.