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Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 2000, 7:27 PM CDT for Dawson 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 2000, 7:27 PM CDT (00:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2000, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Dawson County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 94 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 290030
FFWMAF
TXC115-290330-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
727 PM CDT WED JUN 28 2000
THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN DAWSON COUNTY IN TEXAS
* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
* AT 725 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUNKIN
CENTER...STATIONARY.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...
ARVANA...PUNKIN CENTER...GRANDVIEW...PRIDE...WELCH AND LAMESA
RADAR ESTIMATES OF UP TO 4 INCHES PER HOUR HAVE BEEN OBSERVED WITH
THIS STORM.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...UNDERPASSES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS...AND NORMALLY
DRY WASHES...PARTICULARLY SULPHER SPRINGS DRAW.
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.
IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT
STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN SWIM OR PLAY NEAR FLOOD WATERS.
TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFDICE.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR OTHER MEDIA SOURCES...FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION.
LAT...LON 3272 10219 3273 10204 3270 10194 3294 10188
3294 10218The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 51 min |
| Jun 28, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 65 min |
| Jun 28, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson, Martin | 66 min |
| Jun 28, 11:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews | 4 hr |
| Jun 29, 3:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews | 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.