Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 1994, 3:52 PM CDT for Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1994, 3:52 PM CDT (20:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1994, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Howard County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 780 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 102053 FFWMAF TXC227-110100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 352 PM CDT TUE MAY 10 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TEXAS ...HOWARD COUNTY AT 345 PM CDT...HOWARD COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPUTIES REPORTED WATER RUNNING OVER THE ROADWAYS IN THE CITY OF BIG SPRING. THERE ARE REPORTS OF MORE THAN 5 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN PORTION OF HOWARD COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORM AND RAINSHOWERS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE CONTINUING TO MOVE NORTH INTO HOWARD COUNTY AND ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL HELP TO AGGREVATE THIS POTENTIAL PROBLEM. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 66 min |
| May 9, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 55 min |
| May 10, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 46 min |
| May 10, 1:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 67 min |
| May 10, 2:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reeves | 42 min |
| May 10, 2:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 62 min |
| May 10, 3:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving, Ward | 63 min |
| May 10, 4:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 58 min |
| May 10, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 63 min |
| May 10, 2:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 56 min |
| May 10, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 55 min |
| May 10, 6:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 3 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.