Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 12, 1994, 12:51 PM CDT for Andrews County, Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 1994, 12:51 PM CDT (17:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 1994, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Andrews County, TX, Gaines County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 612 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 770 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 121752 FFWMAF TXC003-165-122100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1251 PM CDT THU MAY 12 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST TEXAS ...ANDREWS COUNTY...GAINES COUNTY AT 1250 PM CDT...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUES IN WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO ON ALREADY SATURATED GROUND. IN THE PAST HOUR OVER ONE AND ONE HALF INCH OF RAIN FELL NEAR ANDREWS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. 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. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THIS WARNED AREA. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 58 min |
| May 11, 7:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard | 118 min |
| May 11, 7:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| May 11, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 68 min |
| May 11, 8:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Upton | 3 hr |
| May 11, 9:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 3 hr |
| May 12, 1:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 57 min |
| May 12, 1:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos | 56 min |
| May 12, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 62 min |
| May 12, 3:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 117 min |
| May 12, 3:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Upton | 117 min |
| May 12, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 59 min |
| May 12, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 65 min |
| May 12, 4:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Midland | 59 min |
| May 12, 5:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| May 12, 5:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Upton | 3 hr |
| May 12, 5:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Martin | 2 hr |
| May 12, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Howard | 62 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.