Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 23, 1993, 11:58 PM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 1993, 11:58 PM CDT (04:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1993, 12:54 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 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, 5.0 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 240459 RRA FFWMAF TXC135-240800- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1158 PM CDT SUN MAY 23 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TEXAS ...ECTOR COUNTY AT 1155 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING INTO NORTHERN ECTOR COUNTY. MANY AREAS IN ECTOR COUNTY HAVE RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN THE PAST THREE DAYS...AND ANY ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LIKELY LEAD TO FLOODING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF F LOODS 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 23, 6:49 PM CDT, 5 hours 9 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, 5 hours 9 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 | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 60 min |
| 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 |
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.