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Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
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.
- 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 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 10480The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 6:22 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 4 hr |
| Jun 28, 8:33 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 4 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.