Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 23, 1993, 7:15 PM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 1993, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 1993, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ector County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 875 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2257 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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, May 23, 6:49 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-240050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 648 PM CDT (548 PM MDT) SUN MAY 23 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING IN INTENSITY OVER THE PERMIAN BASIN... AT 629 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE WIDELY SCATTERED IN AN AREA WHICH EXTENDED FROM EAST OF ARTESIA NEW MEXICO TO NEAR PANDALE IN EXTREME NORTHWESTERN VAL VERDE COUNTY TEXAS. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS JUST WEST OF PANDALE. OTHER STONG STORMS WERE BETWEEN SARAGOSA AND ODESSA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. A HEAVY RAINSHOWER HAD DEVELOPED SOUTHEAST OF LUBBOCK. MOVEMENT HAD NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 23, 6:49 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-240050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 648 PM CDT (548 PM MDT) SUN MAY 23 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING IN INTENSITY OVER THE PERMIAN BASIN... AT 629 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE WIDELY SCATTERED IN AN AREA WHICH EXTENDED FROM EAST OF ARTESIA NEW MEXICO TO NEAR PANDALE IN EXTREME NORTHWESTERN VAL VERDE COUNTY TEXAS. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS JUST WEST OF PANDALE. OTHER STONG STORMS WERE BETWEEN SARAGOSA AND ODESSA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. A HEAVY RAINSHOWER HAD DEVELOPED SOUTHEAST OF LUBBOCK. MOVEMENT HAD NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 60 min |
| May 23, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 67 min |
| May 23, 10:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 59 min |
| May 23, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 59 min |
| May 23, 11:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 61 min |
| May 23, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 61 min |
| May 23, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 69 min |
| May 23, 11:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 56 min |
| May 24, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | De Baca | 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.