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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 9, 19934 counties in Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 1993, 12:50 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 1993, 12:50 PM CDT (17:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1993, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Borden County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Howard County, TX, Martin County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 80 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: 2427 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1165 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 9, 8:40 AM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 9, 8:40 AM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 6:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	65 min
Jun 9, 6:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Martin	64 min
Jun 9, 7:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson	64 min
Jun 9, 9:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden	60 min
Jun 9, 9:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	68 min
Jun 9, 10:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	51 min
Jun 9, 11:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	59 min
Jun 9, 11:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	59 min
Jun 9, 12:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	64 min
Jun 9, 1:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	67 min
Jun 9, 1:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	55 min
Jun 9, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	68 min
Jun 9, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	65 min
Jun 9, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	61 min
Jun 9, 2:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Midland	6 hr
Jun 9, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	65 min
Jun 9, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	68 min
Jun 9, 3:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Midland	68 min
Jun 9, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	58 min
Jun 9, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	67 min
Jun 9, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	65 min
Jun 9, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	59 min
Jun 9, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	58 min
Jun 9, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	61 min
Jun 9, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	58 min
Jun 9, 6:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	55 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.