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Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

September 6, 1994Dawson County, Gaines County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 6, 1994, 1:16 AM CDT for Dawson County, Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 6, 1994, 1:16 AM CDT (06:16 UTC)
Expired: Sep 6, 1994, 4:15 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dawson County, TX, Gaines County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 88 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 302 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2562 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 060617
FFWMAF
TXC115-165-060915-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
116 AM CDT TUE SEP 6 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN WEST TEXAS
 
   ...DAWSON COUNTY...GAINES COUNTY
 
AT 113 AM CDT...MIDLAND RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN EXTENDING IN A LINE FROM THE TEXAS BORDER EAST OF HOBBS NEW MEXICO
TO AS FAR EAST AS THE VICINITY OF LAMESA IN DAWSON COUNTY. THESE STORMS
WERE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE NORTH. FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE CITIES
OF SEMINOLE AND LAMESA AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES AS A RESULT OF THIS
VERY HEAVY RAIN.
 
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.

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, Sep 5, 9:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before

TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ029-060340-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
938 PM CDT (838 PM MDT) MON SEP 5 1994

...AT 930 PM CDT THERE WERE NO WATCHES OR WARNINGS IN EFFECT...

.AT 930 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE INDICATED EAST OF
CARLSBAD IN NEW MEXICO AND EAST OF BIG SPRING...NEAR WINK...MONAHANDS
AND GRANDFALLS. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MUCH OF THE
REST OF THE PERMIAN BASIN.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR.

STRONG GUSTY WIND...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND
SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS.

Special weather statement, Sep 5, 10:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ029-060440-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1038 PM CDT (938 PM MDT) MON SEP 5 1994

.AT 1030 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE INDICATED SOUTHEAST
OF CARLSBAD IN NEW MEXICO AND FROM SOUTH OF SEMINOLE TO LAMESA TO GAIL
TO COLORADO CITY AND ALSO SOUTH OF GOLDSMITH...WEST OF ODESSA AND
NORTHEAST OF GRANDFALLS.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR.

STRONG GUSTY WIND...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND
SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS.

Special weather statement, Sep 5, 11:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ029-060540-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1131 PM CDT (931 PM MDT) MON SEP 5 1994

.AT 1130 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER ODESSA AND
OVER MUCH OF MARTIN COUNTY AND THE SOUTH PORTION OF DAWSON AND BORDON
COUNTIES. A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS ALSO SOUTHEAST OF CARLSBAD
IN NEW MEXICO.

OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM ALPINE
TO ROBERT LEE.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR.

STRONG GUSTY WIND...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND
SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS.

Local storm report, Sep 5, 11:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1145 PM CDT MON SEP 5 1994

...REPORTS OF SEVERE EVENTS OCCURRING ON 5 SEPTEMBER 1994...

TIME (CDT)          COUNTY       EVENT

705 PM              REEVES       A RADIO STATION REPORTED
                    TXC389       1.00 INCH HAIL LASTING FOR
                                 10 MINUTES AT THE WESTERN EDGE
                                 OF PECOS

800 PM              WINKLER      THE P8UBLIC REPORTED UP TO 1.75
                    TXC495       INCH HAIL IN KERMIT LASTING FOR
                                 LESS THAN 10 MINUTES.

Local storm report, Sep 5, 11:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1145 PM CDT MON SEP 5 1994

...REPORTS OF SEVERE EVENTS OCCURRING ON 5 SEPTEMBER 1994...

TIME (CDT)          COUNTY       EVENT

705 PM              REEVES       A RADIO STATION REPORTED
                    TXC389       1.00 INCH HAIL LASTING FOR
                                 10 MINUTES AT THE WESTERN EDGE
                                 OF PECOS

800 PM              WINKLER      THE PUBLIC REPORTED UP TO 1.75
                    TXC495       INCH HAIL IN KERMIT LASTING FOR
                                 LESS THAN 10 MINUTES.

Special weather statement, Sep 6, 12:49 AM CDT, 27 minutes before

TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ029-060950-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1248 AM CDT (1148 PM MDT) TUE SEP 6 1994

...SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS  ARE CONTINUING OVER THE PERMIAN
   BASIN...

AT 1230 AM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE LOCATED EAST
OF HOBBS TO SEMINOLE AND LAMESA...AND FROM WINK TO CRANE.

THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON TO
NEAR CARLSBAD AND ACROSS THE NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN TO LUBBOCK AND
ABILENE.

PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN WERE LOCATED SOUTH OF ANDREWS TO  GARDEN CITY AND
BIG SPRING.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT LESS THAN 10 MILES AN HOUR.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND
SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS.

STREET FLOODING WILL BE A PROBLEM OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.
DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED AREAS. SHALLOW...SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER
CAN WASH A CAR FROM A ROADWAY. ALSO...THE ROADBED MAY NOT BE
INTACT UNDER THE WATER.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING AND RAPIDLY RISING WATER.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 5, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves, Ward	55 min
Sep 5, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Winkler	60 min

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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.