Flash Flood in Texas, June 22, 1999

Name: Flash Flood in Texas, June 22, 1999
Start: 1999-06-22T00:01
End: 1999-06-22T03:00
Location: Texas

June 22, 1999 · NWS MAF · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 158 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:01 UTC.

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Reeves

When: June 22, 12:01 AM CST to 3:00 AM CST
Where: Reeves County, Orla
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 31.323, -103.693 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

An upper level disturbance interacted with copious amounts of Pacific moisture from Hurricane Adrian, located south of Baja Mexico, to produce late evening thunderstorms in Southeast New Mexico. These storms moved south from Eddy county into Reeves county and dropped very heavy rain near Orla. Radar indicated rainfall rates of 2 inches per hour. High water was reported in Orla just after midnight CST, with a car caught in rising water at FM 652 and County road 457 twenty minutes later. The occupants were rescued.

What these are

Flash Flood: Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Texas in 1999 Every state in 1999 This day in weather history Warnings in Texas, June 1999

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5705851.