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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

September 21, 1990Pecos County, Reeves County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 21, 1990, 11:58 PM CDT for Pecos County, Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 21, 1990, 11:58 PM CDT (04:58 UTC)
Expired
Sep 22, 1990, 3:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Pecos County, TX, Reeves 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 138 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1990-09-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 84 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1990-09-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
84 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
795 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 220511 COR
FFWMAF
TXC371-389-220800-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1158 PM CDT FRI SEP 21 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

   ...WESTERN PECOS COUNTY...AND EASTERN REEVES COUNTY

AT 1150 PM CDT...DPS REPORTED THAT HIGHWAY 67/385...BETWEEN MCCAMEY
AND INTERSTATE 10...IN PECOS COUNTY...HAS BEEN CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING.

HIGHWAY 11...BETWEEN GIRVIN AND BAKERSFIELD...IN WESTERN PECOS COUNTY
...HAD HIGH WATER...AND IS EXPECTED TO BE CLOSED SHORTLY...DUE TO
FLOODING.
HIGHWAY 285...BETWEEN PECOS AND FORT STOCKTON...IN EASTERN REEVES AND
WESTERN PECOS COUNTIES...HAD HIGH WATER...AND IS EXPECTED TO BE CLOSED
SHORTLY...DUE TO FLOODING.

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EARLIER TONIGHT...ALONG WITH
CONTINUOUS RAINFALL FOR THE PAST SEVERAL HDOURS...AND RAINFALL
EXPECTED THROUGH THE NIGHT...WILL CAUSE FLOODING IN THESE RAIN
SWOLLEN AREAS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION
STATIONS FOR FURTHER BULLETINS AND INFORMATION.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 21, 7:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFWard3 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.