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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 6, 1992Borden County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 1992, 10:28 PM CDT for Borden County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 6, 1992, 10:28 PM CDT (03:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 1992, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Borden County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 278 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: 96 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -192 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1334 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 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 070331 RRA
FFWMAF
TXC033-070630-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1028 PM CDT SAT JUN 6 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
 
   ...SOUTHERN BORDEN COUNTY AND NORTHERN HOWARD COUNTY.
 
AT 1020 PM CDT... THE SHERIFFS OFFICE IN HOWARD COUNTY REPORTED WATER
OF 9 INCHES TO 1 FOOT IN PLACES  ALONG HIGHWAY 87 6 MILES NORTH OF BIG
SPRINGS TO THE BORDEN COUNTY LINE. THE STORMS THAT PRODUCED THESE FLOO
RAINS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
 
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, Jun 6, 9:45 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-070400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
940 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR THE PERMIAN
   BASIN...

AT 925 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL WERE
LOCATED FROM NORTH OF BIG SPRING TO POST...WEST OF LUBBOCK IN BAILEY
AND COCHRAN COUNTRIES AND SOUTH OF SHEFFIELD.

THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED FROM THE EASTERN PLAINS OF
NEW MEXICO TO THE SOUTH PLAINS...PERMIAN BASIN,,,CONCHO VALLEY AND THE
TRANS PECOS

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO THE NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION
FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	56 min
Jun 6, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	68 min
Jun 7, 5:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	69 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.