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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 23, 1992, 9:45 PM CDT for Crane County, Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 1992, 9:45 PM CDT (02:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1992, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crane County, TX, Ector County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 1289 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 240247 FFWMAF TXC103-135-240645- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 945 PM CDT SAT MAY 23 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS ...CRANE COUNTY...ECTOR COUNTY AT 945 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS OVER CRANE COUNTY HAVE PRODUCED HEAVY RAINS AND THE LOW LYING AREAS THAT WERE FLOODED EARLIER TODAY HAVE BEGUN TO OVERFLOW. THIS STORM IS MOVING INTO ECTOR COUNTY. IF RISING WATER IS SIGHTED...GET TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. 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. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
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 23, 5:45 PM CDT, 4 hours before
TXZ013-014-016-051-053-NMZ013-232330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 545 PM CDT SAT MAY 23 1992 ...THE FLOOD WARNING FOR LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 544 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED THAT THE HEAVY RAINS THAT HAVE BEEN IN LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO HAVE DECREASED IN AREAL COVERAGE AND INTENSITY... THEREFORE THE THREAT OF FLOODING HAS DIMINISHED. HOWEVER...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS STILL IN EFFECT FOR LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO THROUGH TONIGHT...AND HEAVY RAINS MAY STILL DEVELOP LATER TONIGHT. IF NEW STORMS BEGIN TO DEVELOP...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 23, 5:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before
TXZ013-014-016-051-053-NMZ013-232330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 545 PM CDT SAT MAY 23 1992 ...THE FLOOD WARNING FOR LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 544 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED THAT THE HEAVY RAINS THAT HAVE BEEN IN LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO HAVE DECREASED IN AREAL COVERAGE AND INTENSITY... THEREFORE THE THREAT OF FLOODING HAS DIMINISHED. HOWEVER...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS STILL IN EFFECT FOR LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO THROUGH TONIGHT...AND HEAVY RAINS MAY STILL DEVELOP LATER TONIGHT. IF NEW STORMS BEGIN TO DEVELOP...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 9:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 4 hr |
| May 23, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 61 min |
| May 23, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 2 hr |
| May 24, 3:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 69 min |
| May 24, 4:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving | 60 min |
| May 24, 5:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 60 min |
| May 24, 6:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 57 min |
| May 24, 7:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos | 58 min |
| May 24, 7:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Upton | 62 min |
| May 24, 8:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 59 min |
| May 24, 8:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 67 min |
| May 24, 10:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Crane, Ector, Midland, Upton | 3 hr |
| May 24, 10:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 68 min |
| May 24, 12:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Howard | 3 hr |
| May 24, 1:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Crane, Upton | 3 hr |
| May 24, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 55 min |
| May 24, 5:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 58 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.