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Flash Flood Warning 64, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 17, 2000, 3:54 PM CDT for Presidio County, Texas. 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
- Oct 17, 2000, 3:54 PM CDT (20:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 17, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Presidio County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 253 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
- 1777 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 603 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 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 172058 COR FFWMAF TXC377-180000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED UGC HEADER NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 354 PM CDT TUE OCT 17 2000 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN PRESIDIO COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 350 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARFA... SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE... MARFA AND PASISANO PASS. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...UNDERPASSES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS...AND NORMALLY DRY WASHES. ALAMITO CREEK IS OF PARTICULAR CONCERN. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR OTHER MEDIA SOURCES...FOR THE LATEST UPDATES ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. LAT...LON 3030 10413 3017 10399 3008 10381 3039 10380 G 3046 10416
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 8:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Oct 16, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Oct 17, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis, Presidio | 44 min |
| Oct 17, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Presidio | 46 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.