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Flash Flood Warning 61, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 29, 2000Jeff Davis County, Reeves County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 29, 2000, 8:35 PM CDT for Jeff Davis County, Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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
Aug 29, 2000, 8:35 PM CDT (01:35 UTC)
Expired
Aug 29, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Jeff Davis County, TX, Reeves County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 186 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 2000-08-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 46 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-08-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
46 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2805 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
13 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 300136
FFWMAF
TXC243-389-300400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
835 PM CDT TUE AUG 29 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY IN TEXAS
  SOUTHEASTERN REEVES COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 835 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM JUST EAST OF FORT
  DAVIS NORTH TO JUST EAST OF BALMORHEA...MOVING NORTH AT 10
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...   
  VERHALEN...SARAGOSA...BALMORHEA...AND HIGHWAY 17 BETWEEN
  FORT DAVIS AND TOYAHVALE.

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. DO NOT DRIVE AROUND BARRICADES.

LAT...LON 3062 10377 3051 10366 3067 10345 3077 10359
          3114 10325 3114 10377

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 29, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster, Jeff Davis49 min

Nearby

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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.