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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 16, 1992Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 16, 1992, 9:48 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 16, 1992, 9:48 PM CDT (02:48 UTC)
Expired: Apr 17, 1992, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Pecos County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 139 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1485 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1671 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 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 170249
FFWMAF
TXC371-170545-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
948 PM CDT THU APR 16 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
 
   ...EASTERN PECOS COUNTY
 
AT 943 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN MOVING OVER THE SAME AREA IN EASTERN PECOS COUNTY. INTERSATE 10
BETWEEN FORT STOCKTON AND NEAR IRAAN WILL BE ESPECIALLY PRONE TO
PERSISTENT HEAVY RAIN. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO 5 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE
OVER THE NEXT 2 TO 3 HOURS IN THIS SECTION.
 
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

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, Apr 16, 4:39 PM CDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before

TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-162240-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
425 PM CDT THU APR 16 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE SOUTH PLAINS UNTIL 1000 PM CDT...
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE CONCHO VALLEY FOR TONIGHT...

AT 425 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SOUTH AND
NORTHEAST OF FORT STOCKTON AND NORTHWEST OF HOBBS NEW MEXICO.

VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED.U

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...
STRONG WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 16, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	64 min
Apr 16, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	62 min
Apr 16, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	60 min

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.