Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 83, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 28, 2000, 3:18 PM CDT for Pecos County, Reagan County, Terrell 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 28, 2000, 3:18 PM CDT (20:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Terrell County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 878 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMAF 282024
FFWMAF
TXC371-383-443-282315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
318 PM CDT SAT OCT 28 2000
THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
EASTERN PECOS COUNTY IN TEXAS
REAGAN COUNTY IN TEXAS
TERRELL COUNTY IN TEXAS
* UNTIL 615 PM CDT
* AT 315 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM MIDKIFF... TO 5 MILES WEST
OF IRAAN...TO SANDERSON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. FLOODING
HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS IN CRANE AND MCCAMEY.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...
THE TERRELL GAS PLANT...NORTH REAGAN FIRE STATION...DRYDEN...
SHEFFIELD...SANDERSON...IRAAN...AND BIG LAKE.
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.
LAT...LON 3099 10227 2999 10248 2990 10190 3120 10136
3167 10135 3165 10176 3115 10175The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 1:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 42 min |
| Oct 28, 1:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 59 min |
| Oct 28, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 62 min |
| Oct 28, 2:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Upton | 3 hr |
| Oct 28, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 62 min |
| Oct 28, 3:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 3 hr |
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.