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Flash Flood Warning 57, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 2000, 12:19 AM MDT for Lea 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 29, 2000, 12:19 AM MDT (06:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2000, 3:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lea County, NM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:22 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 139 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 290626 FFWMAF NMC025-290915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1219 AM MDT THU JUN 29 2000 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LEA COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 315 AM MDT * AT 1215 PM MDT...REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED OF SIGNIFICANT WATER FLOWS CONTINUING IN LEA COUNTY. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE... OIL CENTER...BRONCO...CROSSROADS...GLADIOLA...MCDONALD...KNOWLES... BUCKEYE...HUMBLE CITY...MONUMENT...NADINE...TATUM...LOVINGTON... JAL...HOBBS AND EUNICE RAINS ARE DECREASING ACROSS LEA COUNTY. HOWEVER...SEVERAL REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED OF RESIDUAL FLOODING. SWOLLEN CREEKS...ARROYOS...AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS WILL NEED TIME TO RECEDE AND THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN REISSUED. 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 NEARES T LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. LAT...LON 3202 10368 3201 10308 3356 10305 3356 10371
The 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 28, 10:15 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 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.