Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 15, 1995, 3:56 AM CDT for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 15, 1995, 3:56 AM CDT (08:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 1995, 6:55 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gaines County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 1060 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2007 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 150856 FFWMAF TXC165-151155- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 356 AM CDT TUE AUG 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 655 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TEXAS ...GAINES COUNTY ...A FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR GAINES COUNTY UNTIL 700 AM CDT... AT 345 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED MORE HEAVY RAINFALL OCCURRING OVER GAINES COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS FALLING BETWEEN SEMINOLE AND LOOP. SOME ROADS ACROSS THE COUNTY...AND IN SEMINOLE WERE REPORTED COVERED WITH WATER. UP TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE COUNTY IN THE LAST 12 HOURS. AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS THE AREA...1 TO 3 ADDITIONAL INCHES OF MORE RAIN IS POSSIBLE. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGER OF FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE 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. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
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, Aug 14, 11:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-150545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1141 PM CDT (1041 PM MDT) MON AUG 14 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN LEA AND EDDY COUNTIES IN NEW MEXICO... AT 1125 PM CDT (1025 PM MDT)...THUNDERSTORMS WERE AGAIN DEVELOPING IN LEA AND EDDY COUNTIES IN NEW MEXICO. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE EAST OF ARTESIA AND NORTHWEST OF LOVINGTON...TATUM AND HOBBS. ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS EXTENDED FROM NORTHEAST OF LUBBOCK TO WEST OF MIDLAND IN TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST 15 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS...LOCATED IN PRESIDIO COUNTY...WERE DECREASING IN INTENSITY AND SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Aug 15, 12:38 AM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-150640- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1238 AM CDT (1138 PM MDT) TUE AUG 15 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUING OVER SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... AT 1225 AM CDT (1125 PM MDT)...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDED FROM 25 MILES EAST OF CARLSBAD TO BETWEEN LOVINGTON AND TATUM. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE OCCURRING BETWEEN ROSWELL... LUBBOCK... AND EUNICE NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE DETECTED 30 MILES EAST OF GUADALUPE PASS... NEAR SIERRA BLANCA... NEAR VAN HORN... AND BETWEEN PRESIDIO AND MARFA. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS NOTED. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Aug 15, 1:35 AM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-150740- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 135 AM CDT (1235 AM MDT) TUE AUG 15 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... 127 AM CDT (1227 AM MDT)...A 30 MILE WIDE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL... EXTENDED FROM NEAR MORTON TEXAS TO 30 MILES EAST OF CARSLBAD. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL STRETCHED FROM NEAR LOVINGTON TO 30 MILES EAST OF CARLSBAD. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES. ELSEWHERE... WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE DETECTED BETWEEN ORLA... VAN HORN... AND SIERRA BLANCA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Aug 15, 2:42 AM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-150845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 242 AM CDT (142 AM MDT) TUE AUG 15 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WEAKENING OVER SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... AT 333 AM CDT (233 AM MDT)...A 40 MILE WIDE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDED FROM NORTHWEST OF LUBBOCK NEAR LITTLEFIELD TO 35 MILES EAST OF CARLSBAD. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. IN ADDITION... WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE DETECTED BETWEEN DELL CITY AND SIERRA BLANCA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO HAVE WEAKEN OVER THE PAST HOUR. THEREFORE... THIS WILL BE THE LAST STATEMENT ISSUED CONCERNING THIS WEATHER EVENT. YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR CONDITIONS AND LATER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED IF REDEVELOPMENT OCCURS.
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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.