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Flash Flood Warning 109, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

September 24, 1996Terrell County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 24, 1996, 5:53 PM CDT for Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 24, 1996, 5:53 PM CDT (22:53 UTC)
Expired
Sep 24, 1996, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Terrell County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 153 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-09-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2655 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-09-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2655 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
742 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
3.7

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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.