Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 21, 1993, 8:51 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 21, 1993, 8:51 PM CDT (01:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1993, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Andrews County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 22 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
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 220201 COR FFWMAF TXC003-135-173-317-329-220500- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 851 PM CDT FRI MAY 21 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST TEXAS ...EASTERN ANDREWS COUNTY...EASTERN ECTOR COUNTY ...GLASSCOCK COUNTY...MARTIN COUNTY...MIDLAND COUNTY... AT 845 CDT... THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE ACROSS AREAS WHICH PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. THE GROUND IS SATURATED AND ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL QUICKLY GENERATE RUNOFF. 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, May 21, 5:01 PM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-212305- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 500 PM CDT (400 PM MDT) FRI MAY 21 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND MUCH OF WEST TEXAS UNTIL 11 PM CDT... 10 PM MDT... AT 433 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN FORT STOCKTON AND GRANDFALLS...EAST AND NORTHEAST OF GARDEN CITY... JUST EAST OF ANDREWS AND NORTH OF ROTAN. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE IN AN AREA FROM EASTERN BREWSTER COUNTY TEXAS TO NEAR TATUM NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. ADVANCE PLANNING DURING A WATCH IS ESSENTIAL. MAKE SURE YOUR FAMILY KNOWS WHERE TO GO AND WHAT TO DO IN THE EVENT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, May 21, 5:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-212355- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 551 PM CDT (451 PM MDT) FRI MAY 21 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND MUCH OF WEST TEXAS UNTIL 11 PM CDT... 10 PM MDT... AT 532 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR ANDREWS... STERLING CITY...SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY...BETWEEN ODESSA AND CRANE...JUST NORTH OF MONAHANS AND NORTHEAST OF GRANDFALLS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE IN AN AREA FROM SOUTH OF MARATHON TEXAS TO THE VICINITY OF LOVINGTON NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. AT 529 PM CDT...MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN MONAHANS. DURING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH...BE READY TO MOVE TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 21, 5:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-212355- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 551 PM CDT (451 PM MDT) FRI MAY 21 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND MUCH OF WEST TEXAS UNTIL 11 PM CDT... 10 PM MDT... AT 532 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR ANDREWS... STERLING CITY...SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY...BETWEEN ODESSA AND CRANE...JUST NORTH OF MONAHANS AND NORTHEAST OF GRANDFALLS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE IN AN AREA FROM SOUTH OF MARATHON TEXAS TO THE VICINITY OF LOVINGTON NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. AT 529 PM CDT...MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN MONAHANS. DURING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH...BE READY TO MOVE TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 21, 6:51 PM CDT, 2 hours before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-220055- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 650 PM CDT (550 PM MDT) FRI MAY 21 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND MUCH OF WEST TEXAS UNTIL 11 PM CDT... 10 PM MDT... AT 628 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN HOBBS AND LOVINGTON NEW MEXICO...NEAR GOLDSMITH TEXAS...IN THE VICINITY OF MIDLAND...WEST OF LENORAH...WEST AND SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY AND NORTH OF LONGFELLOW. THE MOST INTENSE STORM WAS SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM SOUTH OF ORLA TO NEAR KERMIT. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. MINOR STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN HOBBS NEW MEXICO AND NORTHWEST ODESSA DURING THE PAST HOUR. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 21, 6:51 PM CDT, 2 hours before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-220055- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 650 PM CDT (550 PM MDT) FRI MAY 21 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND MUCH OF WEST TEXAS UNTIL 11 PM CDT... 10 PM MDT... AT 628 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN HOBBS AND LOVINGTON NEW MEXICO...NEAR GOLDSMITH TEXAS...IN THE VICINITY OF MIDLAND...WEST OF LENORAH...WEST AND SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY AND NORTH OF LONGFELLOW. THE MOST INTENSE STORM WAS SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM SOUTH OF ORLA TO NEAR KERMIT. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. MINOR STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN HOBBS NEW MEXICO AND NORTHWEST ODESSA DURING THE PAST HOUR. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 8:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
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.