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Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 28, 2000Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 2000, 10:15 PM MDT for Eddy 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 28, 2000, 10:15 PM MDT (04:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2000, 1:00 AM MDT
In force
3 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), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:17 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 206 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 2000-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 290416
FFWMAF
NMC015-290700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1015 PM MDT WED JUN 28 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EDDY COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 100 AM MDT

* AT 1005 PM MDT...REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED OF SIGNIFICANT WATER   
  FLOWS IN WEST EDDY COUNTY.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...   
  ESPUELA...LOCO HILLS...ATOKA...DAYTON...LAKEWOOD...SEVEN RIVERS...
  AVALON...OTIS...MALAGA...QUEEN...WHITES CITY...LOVING...CARLSBAD   
  NORTH...CARLSBAD AND ARTESIA.

RAINS ARE DECREASING ACROSS EDDY COUNTY HOWEVER SEVERAL REPORTS HAVE 
BEEN RECEIVED OF FLOODING IN COTTONWOOD CANYON CREEK...SEVEN RIVERS 
...AND ROCKY ARROYO. OTHER AREAS IN EDDY ESPECIALLY NORTHEAST AT 
SOUTHEAST PARTS OF THE COUNTY ALSO RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN AND THERE MAY 
SOME FLOODING. SWOLLEN CREEKS...ARROYOS...AND LOW WATER CROSSING 
WILL NEED TIME TO RECEDE AND THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS 
BEEN REISSUED TO INCLUDE ALL OF EDDY COUNTY. THE CHANCE OF HEAVY 
RAIN HAS DIMINISHED IN EDDY COUNTY...HOWEVER WITH STORMS STILL WEST 
OF THE MOUNTAINS MOVING EAST MORE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE AFTER MIDNIGHT.

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.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

LAT...LON 3209 10481 3208 10388 3225 10375 3294 10387
          3293 10480

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 6:22 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy4 hr
Jun 28, 8:33 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLea4 hr
Jun 29, 12:19 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLea3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.