Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 12, 1989, 6:17 PM CDT for Dawson County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 12, 1989, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 1989, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dawson 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMAF 122318
FFWMAF
TXC115-130215-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
617 PM CDT TUE SEP 12 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
...DAWSON
AT 605 PM CDT...PUBLIC REPORTED UP TO 3 FEET OF WATER IN LAMESA.
THUNDERSTOMS HAVE BEEN INCREASING IN INTENSITY AND NUMBER OVER DAWSON
COUNTY DURING THE PAST HOUR.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADW\AY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP 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, Sep 12, 4:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 435 PM CDT TUE SEP 12 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PARTS OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO FROM 500 PM UNTIL 1000 PM CDT... AT 425 PM...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME VERY HEAVY...WERE WIDELY SCATTERED IN A 135 MILE WIDE AREA FROM 35 MILES NORTH OF LUBBOCK TO 30 MILES WEST OF SEIRRA BLANCA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. DURING THE LAST HOUR A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WENT THROUGH ROSWELL NEW MEXICO AND REPORTS OF GRAPEFRUIT SIZE HAIL HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. THIS STORM IS WEAKENING BUT MOVING EAST ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR, AND TOWARD NORTHERN LEA COUNTY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO, TV OR LOCAL RADIO STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Sep 12, 5:31 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 526 PM CDT TUE SEP 12 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PARTS OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO FROM 500 PM CDT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN LEA COUNTY UNTIL 5 PM MDT... AT 425 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME HEAVY...WERE WIDELY SCATTERED IN A 165 MILE WIDE AREA FROM 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF LUBBOCK TO 30 MILES WEST PRESIDIO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. DURING THE LAST HOUR A SECOND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WENT THROUGH ROSWELL NEW MEXICO AND REPORTS OF ONE AND ONE HALF INCH HAIL HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR. S&TAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO, TV OR LOCAL RADIO STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 57 min |
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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.