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Flash Flood Warning 71, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 24, 2000, 3:03 PM CDT for Andrews County, 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, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Andrews County, TX, Gaines County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 91 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 242006 FFWMAF TXC003-165-242300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 303 PM CDT TUE OCT 24 2000 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WESTERN AND CENTRAL ANDREWS COUNTY IN TEXAS WESTERN AND CENTRAL GAINES COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 256 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF SEMINOLE TO 10 MILES WEST OF THE INTERSECTION OF SH 128 AND SH 115...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE... THE FAIRVIEW COMMUNITY...THE INTERSECTION OF SH 115 AND FM 181... LOOP...HIGGINBOTHAM...PAYNES CORNER...FRANKEL CITY...FLOREY... SEMINOLE AND ANDREWS. THE GROUND IN THIS AREA IS ALREADY SATURATED FROM PREVIOUS RAINS. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL ONLY MAKE MATTERS WORSE. 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 H3IGHER GROUND. TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. LAT...LON 3293 10302 3211 10303 3211 10247 3293 10240
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, 7:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | 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.