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Flash Flood Warning 56, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 2000, 11:37 PM CDT for Andrews County, Texas. 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, 11:37 PM CDT (04:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2000, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Andrews County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:41 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 73 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 290438
FFWMAF
TXC003-290830-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1137 PM CDT WED JUN 28 2000
THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
WESTERN ANDREWS COUNTY IN TEXAS
* UNTIL 330 AM CDT
* AT 1132 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 4 MILES WEST OF ANDREWS...MOVING
EAST AT 10 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...
THE INTERSECTION OF SH 115 AND FM 181...FRANKEL CITY...FLOREY AND
ANDREWS
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.
TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.
LAT...LON 3229 10305 3209 10305 3209 10252 3251 10252
3251 10295The 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, 7:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson | 3 hr |
| 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 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.