Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1986
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 1986, 7:15 PM CDT for Pecos County, Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1986, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1986, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pecos County, TX, Terrell 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 1100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1853 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Jun 4, 4:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 429 PM CDT WED JUN 4 1986 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PORTIONS OF WEST TEXAS AND PART OF EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO... AT 425 PM CDT..VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF LUBBOCK..NORTHWEST OF MORTON AND ALSO TO THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF MCCAMEY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO/TV FOR FURTHER. STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 4:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 435 PM CDT WED JUN 4 1986 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PORTIONS OF WEST TEXAS AND PART OF EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO... AT 425 PM CDT..VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF LUBBOCK AND NORTHWEST OF MORTON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOC3ATED TO THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF MCCAMEY. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WERE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO/TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 5:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 530 PM CDT WED JUN 4 1986 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PORTIONS OF WEST TEXAS AND PART OF EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO... AT 525 PM CDT..AN AREA OF SHOWERS WITH VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM BAKERSFIELD EXTEND SOUTHWEST TO 30 MILES EAST OF FORT DAVIS. ANOTHER AREA OF SHOWERS WITH VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM ROARING SPRINGS EXTENDING WESTWARD TO NORTH OF TATUM NEW MEXICO. THE HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN LUBBUCK AND WHITEFACE..AND 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT STOCKTON. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHuER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO/TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 6:32 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 632 PM CDT WED JUN 4 1986 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PORTIONS OF WEST TEXAS AND PART OF EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO... AT 625 PM CDT..AN AREA 20 MILES WIDE OF SHOWERS WITH VERY HEAVY THUNDER- STORMS WAS LOCATED BETWEEN SHEFFIELD AND ALPINE. MOVEMENT OF THIS AREA WAS SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. ANOTHER AREA OF SHOWERS AND VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS 110 MILES WIDE WAS LOCATED BETWEEN GUTHRIE EXTENDING WEST TO NEAR ROSWELL NEW MEXICO. MOST OF THE HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN YOAKUM AND TERRY COUNTIES. MOVEMENT OF THIS AREA WAS EASTWARD AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO/TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1986Every flash flood warning in 1986
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.