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Flash Flood Warning 75, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 24, 2000, 9:58 PM CDT for Ector 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, 9:58 PM CDT (02:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 2000, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Ector County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:58 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 1373 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 873 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMAF 250302 FFWMAF TXC135-250600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 958 PM CDT TUE OCT 24 2000 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ECTOR COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 100 AM CDT * AT 955 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED CONTINUING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN ECTOR COUNTY MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE... PLEASANT FARMS...PENWELL...NORTH COWDEN...NOTREES...WEST ODESSA... ODESSA...GOLDSMITH AND GARDENDALE THE GROUND IN THIS AREA IS ALREADY SATURATED...AND MANY STREETS AND ROADWAYS REMAIN FLOODED FROM PREVIOUS RAINS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL ONLY MAKE MATTERS WORSE. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING OF STREETS AND ROADWAYS...SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...UNDERPASSES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS...AND NORMALLY DRY WASHES. 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 NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. STAY TUNED TO NWOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR OTHER MEDIA SOURCES...FOR THE LATEST UPDATES ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. LAT...LON 3207 10279 3166 10279 3167 10230 3208 10230 44
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Oct 24, 2:50 PM CDT, 7 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 24, 2:50 PM CDT, 7 hours 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 250 PM CDT TUE OCT 24 2000 SHOWERS/FEW THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING ACROSS THE NWRN FORECAST AREA. 19Z SFC ANALYSIS INDICATES SELY FLOW E OF MTNS WITH DEWPOINTS MOSTLY IN THE 60S. VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY DEPICTS ABUNDANT SUNSHINE ALONG/W OF MTNS WHILE THICKER CLOUDS APPARENT MAF VICINITY EWD. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY INDICATES UPPER LOW CENTERED OVER ERN UT WITH JET MAX MOVING EWD ACROSS SONORA/SWRN NM. MODELS APPEARED TO BE INITIALIZED WELL WITH REGARD TO THE CENTRAL ROCKIES LOW. RUC/ETA/ AVN SIMILAR IN DEPICTING NARROW INSTABILITY AXIS GENERALLY ALONG THE ERN NM/W TX BORDER THIS EVENING. SFC BASED CAPES PROGGED FROM 1500- 2000 J/KG WITH LI/S APPROACHING MINUS 4. AS NRN MEXICO JET MAX TRANSLATES EWD DURING NEXT FEW HOURS BELIEVE CONVECTION TO DEVELOP FAIRLY SIGNIFICANLY E OF MTNS/PECOS RIVER VALLEY. THUS PER SWODY1/ SWOMCD/SPSMAF BELIEVE POTENTIAL EXISTS THIS EVENING FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS E OF MTNS AND WILL WRITE ZONES ACCORDINGLY. CELLS MAY MOVE NEWD FAIRLY QUICKLY ALTHOUGH LINE MOVEMENT MAY BE SLOW OR QUASISTATIONARY. SHEAR PROFILES AND MODEL HODOGRAPHS SUGGEST SUPERCELL DEVELOPMENT INITIALLY. BELIEVE EVOLUTION TO BECOME MULTICELLULAR THOUGH. THIS SCENARIO BODES WELL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL DUE TO CELL TRAINING AND HIGH PWATS ON 24/12Z KMAF SOUNDING. WILL ALSO ADD MENTION LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL TONIGHT. CENTRAL ROCKIES TROUGH TO MOVE EWD WED. WILL KEEP MOSTLY CLOUDY/CHANCE PCPN E OF MTNS AS AMPLE MOISTURE TO REMAIN ALONG WITH MID LEVEL FORCING PER H7-H5 NEG DIV Q FIELDS. BEST PCPN CHANCES ACROSS CENTRAL/ERN SECTIONS WED NIGHT AND WILL NOT MENTION POPS FOR WRN SECTIONS. SHORTWAVE RIDGING PROGGED ACROSS THE AREA THURSDAY. THUS WILL FCST PARTLY CLOUDY WITH TEMPS A CATEGORY OR SO WARMER VERSUS WED. EXTENDED PROGS INDICATE DIFFERING SOLUTIONS REGARDING THE W COAST/SWRN U.S. LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS. GIVEN THE UNCERTAINTY WILL OPT FOR A DRY EXTENDED PERIOD WITH TEMPS NEAR SEASONAL NORMALS FOR LATE OCT. BF MAF 60/70/57/74 5432 LSA 58/69/55/72 6543 6R6 62/73/60/75 5432 MRF 51/71/50/72 4321 CNM 57/74/55/77 4432 .MAF... TX...NONE. NM...2NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 24, 7:08 PM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
NMZ029-033-034-TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-074-075-079>082-
250200-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED WARNING TO WATCH
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
708 PM CDT TUE OCT 24 2000
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...
LEA LOVING
PECOS JEFF DAVIS
PRESIDIO BREWSTER
REEVES TERRELL
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
GAINES DAWSON
BORDEN ANDREWS
WINKLER ECTOR
MIDLAND GLASSCOCK
WARD CRANE
UPTON
STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION HAS BEEN REQUESTED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.
RSBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 37 min |
| Oct 24, 7:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 2 hr |
| Oct 24, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 45 min |
| Oct 24, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Midland | 36 min |
| Oct 24, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 45 min |
| Oct 24, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Martin | 29 min |
| Oct 24, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 22 min |
| Oct 24, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 42 min |
| Oct 24, 9:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 34 min |
| Oct 24, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Winkler | 32 min |
| Oct 24, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 43 min |
| Oct 24, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 44 min |
| Oct 24, 11:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews | 4 hr |
| Oct 24, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 48 min |
| Oct 25, 3:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson | 4 hr |
| Oct 25, 5:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 25 min |
| Oct 25, 6:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 4 hr |
| Oct 25, 11:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 3 hr |
| Oct 25, 1:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 3 hr |
| Oct 25, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 50 min |
| Oct 25, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 45 min |
| Oct 25, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 39 min |
| Oct 25, 5:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson | 6 hr |
| Oct 25, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 41 min |
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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.