Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1986
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 29, 1986, 9:43 PM CDT for Glasscock County, Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 1986, 9:43 PM CDT (02:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1986, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2339 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 300243 FFWMAF TXC135-173-003-227-300500- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 943 PM CDT THU MAY 29 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1200 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS...ECTOR...GLASSCOCK...CITY OF ODESSA...ANDREWS AND HOWARD AT 935PM, WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE WARNED COUNTIES HAS LED TO MANY REPORTS OF STREET FLOODING IN ODESSA MIDLAND AND BIG SPRING. THIS SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORM MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND UNDERPASSES. THIS STORM IS ACCOMPANIED BY INTENSE LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN THE AFFECTED COUNTIES SHOULD REMAIN AT HOME AND NOT DRIVE ANYWHERE EXCEPT IN AN EMERGENCY OR TO GET TO A SAFE SHELTER.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 29, 3:44 PM CDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 340 PM CDT THU MAY 29 1986 ...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH PLAINS... AT 330 PM CDT VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURING FROM 25 MILES NORTH TO 25 MILES EAST OF SNYDER..15 MILES SOUTH OF LUBBOCK..10 MILES SOUTH TO 20 MILES EAST OF TATUM NEW MEXICO..AND 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PECOS. ELSEWHERE...WIDELY SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURING OVER WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. CONDITIONS LOOK FAVORABLE FOR FURTHER STRENGTHENING OF THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO/TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 8:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Martin, Midland | 4 hr |
| May 29, 8:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson | 4 hr |
| May 29, 9:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector | 2 hr |
| May 30, 12:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Midland | 3 hr |
| May 30, 12:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Howard, Martin | 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.