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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 30, 1993Ector County, Midland County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 30, 1993, 7:42 PM CDT for Ector County, Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 30, 1993, 7:42 PM CDT (00:42 UTC)
Expired
Aug 30, 1993, 10:17 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Ector County, TX, Midland County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 310 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1993-08-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1387 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1993-08-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -16 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
1387 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1862 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 31, 8:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFTerrell3 hr

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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.