Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 1995, 3:22 AM CDT for Ward County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 1995, 3:22 AM CDT (08:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1995, 6:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ward County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 1953 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1742 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 300825 FFWMAF TXC475-301130- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 322 AM CDT FRI JUN 30 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TEXAS ...WESTERN WARD COUNTY AT 315 AM CDT (215 AM MDT)...THE WARD COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED WATER OVER FM 2355 BETWEEN BARSTOW AND PYOTE. THEY ALSO REPORTED LOW LAND FLOODING IN THE BARSTOW AREA AND WATER OVER INTERSTATE 20 BETWEEN BARSTOW AND PYOTE. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES BETWEEN 2.00 AND 3.50 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE 215 AM CDT IN A BAND FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF BARSTOW TO 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BARSTOW. AT 323 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED LIGHT RAIN IN WESTERN WARD COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THE RAIN WAS SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS 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, Jun 29, 10:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before
NMZ028-300335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1000 PM CDT (900 PM MDT) THU JUN 29 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN EDDY COUNTY PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT HAS EXPIRED... AT 9 PM MDT (10 PM CDT)...THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN EDDY COUNTY WAS LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF WHITES CITY. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED TO THE POINT THAT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS NO LONGER REQUIRED FOR LEA COUNTY. THIS STORM IS STILL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. JACKSON
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 10:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-300450- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1045 PM CDT (945 PM MDT) THU JUN 29 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN AND WESTERN EDDY COUNTY NEW MEXICO... AT 1025 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR OVER PARTS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS. THE AREA EXTENDED FROM 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DELL CITY NEW MEXICO TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF ARTESIA NEW MEXICO. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MILES AN HOUR. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST 25 MILES AN HOUR. A BROKEN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS...SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY HAIL...EXTENDED FROM 10 MILES EAST OF STERLING CITY TEXAS TO 10 MILES EAST OF BALLINGER TEXAS. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES EAST OF BALLINGER. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH 15 MILES AN HOUR. RAINSHOWERS EXTENDED FROM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALPINE TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT DAVIS TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST 10 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 43 min |
| Jun 30, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving, Reeves | 62 min |
| Jun 30, 1:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves, Ward | 55 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.