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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 31, 1987, 2:15 AM CDT for Midland County, Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1987, 2:15 AM CDT (07:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1987, 4:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Midland County, TX, Upton 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 2975 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 747 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 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 310709
FFWMAF
TXC329-310915-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
215 AM CDT SUN MAY 31 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
...MIDLAND...ANDREWS...UPTON...
ANDREWS POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTS VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND PEA SIZE
HAIL...AT 205 AM CDT. RADAR INDICATES A LINE OF VERY HEAVY
THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...EXTENDING FROM NORTHEAST
THROUGH SOUTHWEST OF MIDLAND AT THIS TIME. SATELLITE DATA INDICATES
HEAVY RAINFALL...AND FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE UNTIL 415
AM CDT.
ADDITIONALLY...HIGHWAYS 385 AND 329...THROUGH CRANE...ARE REPORTED AS
IMPASSABLE BY THE CRANE COUNTY SHERIFF...AS OF 215 AM CDT. HE
REPORTED 2 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN...IN THE PAST 30 MINUTES.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
mROADWAY. 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.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 30, 10:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1045 PM CDT SAT MAY 30 1987 ...VERY HEAVY RAIN OCCURING AROUND THE MIDLAND ODESSA AREA... VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED VERY RAPIDLY IN THE MIDLAND ODESSA AND SURROUNDING AREAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE DROPPING LARGE AMOUNTS OF RAIN VERY RAPIDLY. TO THE SOUTH AND WEST OF WINK MORE THAN THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN REPORTED BETWEEN 1000 AND 1045 PM TONIGHT. LARGE AMOUNTS OF RAIN IN THIS SHORT OF TIME WILL CAUSE SMALL STREAMS AND WATER DRAINAGE DITCHES TO OVERFLOW QUICKLY. ROADS WILL BECOME UNDER WATER. WATER CONFINED TO THESE SMALL DRAINAGE AREAS WILL BE FLOWING VERY FAST AND CAN WASH CARS AWAY. PERSONS SHOULD NOT TRY TO DRIVE OR WALK IN THESE AREAS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 58 min |
| May 30, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 60 min |
| May 30, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 66 min |
| May 30, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving | 58 min |
| May 30, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 65 min |
| May 30, 10:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Winkler | 3 hr |
| May 30, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 70 min |
| May 30, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ward, Winkler | 75 min |
| May 31, 12:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector, Ward | 2 hr |
| May 31, 12:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Midland | 2 hr |
| May 31, 1:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Crane | 115 min |
| May 31, 2:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews | 2 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.