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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 11, 1994Crane County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 11, 1994, 6:55 PM CDT for Crane County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 11, 1994, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 1994, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Crane County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 65 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: 1254 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 259 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 291 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.0
Supercell composite: 10.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 112355
FFWMAF
TXC103-120200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
655 PM CDT WED MAY 11 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST TEXAS
 
   ...EASTERN CRANE COUNTY
 
AT 655 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF THE
CITY OF CRANE. THE SLOW NORTHWARD MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM ALLOWS SEVERAL
INCHES OF RAIN TO FALL UNDER THE STORM BEFORE IT MOVES ON.
 
MOVEMENT IS NORTH AT 5 TO 10 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Loving, Reeves	45 min
May 10, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Winkler	66 min
May 10, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	62 min
May 10, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	55 min
May 11, 12:05 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Martin, Midland	40 min
May 11, 12:42 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Martin	48 min
May 11, 1:20 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Howard	40 min
May 11, 1:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	61 min
May 11, 2:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Howard	3 hr
May 11, 3:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Howard	3 hr
May 11, 3:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	91 min
May 11, 3:29 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Howard	46 min
May 11, 3:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Ector	68 min
May 11, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	60 min
May 11, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	70 min
May 11, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Ward	62 min
May 11, 5:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Midland	115 min
May 11, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	65 min
May 11, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Winkler	69 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.