Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1988
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 1988, 4:56 PM CDT for Ector County, Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 1988, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1988, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ector County, TX, Midland 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 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 12 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
- 487 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 781 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 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 092157
FFWMAF
TXC135-329-100000-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
456 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
...ECTOR...MIDLAND
AT 455 PM THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE LOCATED NEAR THE
MIDLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT....LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED.
THE PRECIPITATION IN THE PAST HOUR HAS REACHED 1 INCH AND ANY
ADDITIONAL RAINS ON THE ALREADY SOAKED GROUND WILL CAUSE RAPID RUNOFF
AND FLASH FLOODING IN ODESSA AND MIDLAND. BE ESPECIALLY CAREFUL IN
CROSSING KNOWN DRAINAGE STREETS.
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.aWhat 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, Jul 9, 3:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 340 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 1988 AT 330 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE ENCLOSED WITHIN A 190 MILE WIDE AREA FROM 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF VAN HORN TO 30 MILES WEST OF GUTHRIE. HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS LOCATED NORTH OF GOLDSMIT TO EAST OF ANDREWS TO JUST NORTH AND MIDLAND. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHWEST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN CAUSE HIGH WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... SMALL HAIL...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. MINOR FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN MIDLAND...AND WITH THE VERY HEAVY RAIN...MORE FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN OTHER AREAS.
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 3:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 340 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 1988 AT 330 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE ENCLOSED WITHIN A 190 MILE WIDE AREA FROM 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF VAN HORN TO 30 MILES WEST OF GUTHRIE. HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS LOCATED NORTH OF GOLDSMITH TO EAST OF ANDREWS TO JUST NORTH AND MIDLAND. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHWEST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN CAUSE HIGH WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... SMALL HAIL...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. MINOR FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN MIDLAND...AND WITH THE VERY HEAVY RAIN...MORE FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN OTHER AREAS.
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 4:46 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 445 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 1988 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE PERMIAN BASIN UNTIL MIDNIGHT... AT 430 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE BETWEEN STANTON AND KERMIT. STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN MIDLAND WITH THESE STORMS. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM THE SOUTH PLAINS TO THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS IN TEXAS AND IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. LITTLE MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND FLOODING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OF LOCAL RADIO/TV FOR ADDITIONAL SVTATEMENTS.
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1988Every flash flood warning in 1988
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.