Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 21, 1990, 4:14 PM CDT for Ward County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 21, 1990, 4:14 PM CDT (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 1990, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ward 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 212115 FFWMAF TXC475-220015- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 414 PM CDT FRI SEP 21 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS ...EASTERN WARD COUNTY AT 405 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATES THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OCCURRING IN EASTERN WARD COUNTY. REPORTS FROM THE PUBLIC INDICATE 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN TWENTY MINUTES. 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 BLE 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, Sep 21, 11:47 AM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-211740- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1139 AM CDT FRI SEP 21 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PERMIAN BASIN...CONCHO VALLEY... LOWER PECOS VALLEY...AND BIG BEND AREA UNTIL 7PM CDT... AT 1127 AM CDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED FROM WEST OF SWEETWATER TO EAST OF BIG SPRING AND SOUTHWEST OF STERLING CITY. RAINSHOWERS...THUNDERSTORMS AND PATCHES OF RAIN WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN...SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS TO THE BIG COUNTRY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN NUMBER AND INTENSITY DURING THE AFTERNOON WITH POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODS IN VICINITY OF THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND BULLETINS.
Special weather statement, Sep 21, 12:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-211840- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1232 PM CDT FRI SEP 21 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PERMIAN BASIN...CONCHO VALLEY... LOWER PECOS VALLEY...AND BIG BEND AREA UNTIL 7PM CDT... AT 1227 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED EAST TO SOUTHEAST OF BIG SPRING. SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDER- STORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...ALONG WITH AN AREA OF RAIN WERE OVER THE NORTHERN AND EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN EXTENDING TO THE NORTH OF ABILENE. WIDELY SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST A1T 10 MILES AN HOUR. FLASH FLOODS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTER- NOON IN VICINITY OF THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND BULLETINS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 57 min |
| Sep 21, 4:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990
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.