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Flash Flood Warning 70, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 24, 2000, 7:31 AM CDT for Gaines 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 24, 2000, 7:31 AM CDT (12:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2000, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Gaines County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:35 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 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 559 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 696 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMAF 241234 FFWMAF TXC165-241530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 731 AM CDT TUE OCT 24 2000 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WESTERN GAINES COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 1030 AM CDT * AT 729 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 5 MILES NORTH OF PAYNES CORNER AND ALONG AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 180. MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE... HIGGINBOTHAM...PAYNES CORNER...HIGHWAY 180 WEST OF SEMINOLE AND SEMINOLE. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...UNDERPASSES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS...AND NORMALLY DRY WASHES. LAT...LON 3281 10305 3255 10302 3256 10256 3293 10253 3295 10303
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 9:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Terrell | 4 hr |
| Oct 23, 9:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 4 hr |
| Oct 24, 3:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 60 min |
| Oct 24, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Winkler | 53 min |
| Oct 24, 5:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 24 min |
| Oct 24, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 45 min |
| Oct 24, 6:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector, Winkler | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.