Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Issued

Aug 3, 1996, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)

Expired

Aug 3, 1996, 9:50 PM CDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Area

Whole counties

Counties Brewster County, TX, Terrell County, TX

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 219 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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TTAA00 KMAF 032349
FFWMAF
TXC043-443-040250-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
649 PM CDT SAT AUG 3 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 950 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST TEXAS

   ...EASTERN BREWSTER COUNTY
   ...WESTERN TERRELL COUNTY
 
AT 643 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING
SLOWLY ACROSS WESTERN TERRELL AND EASTERN BREWSTER COUNTIES. BECAUSE
OF THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS FLASH FLOODING WILL
OCCUR AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES
AS MUCH AS AN INCH AND A HALF OF RAINFALL WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT IS
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID
CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RATINS.

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 3, 2:08 PM CDT, 4 hours 41 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
205 PM CDT SAT AUG 3 1996

LATEST VIS SHOWING CONVECTION OVER DAVIS AND GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS.
KMAF 88D REFL PRODUCT SHOWS DBZ VALUES APPROACHING 55 ON SOME OF THE
STRONGER STORMS OVER JEFF DAVIS COUNTY.  STORM MOTION APPEARS TO
BE EAST AT 15 MPH.  VWP SHOWING A UNIDIRECTIONAL WIND FIELD FROM THE
SURFACE TO ABOUT 8K AGL FROM THE SOUTH.

LATEST WV IMAGERY SHOWS VORT MAX OVER SOUTHWESTERN NM CONTINUING TO
MOVE EASTWARD.  THIS FEATURE WILL AID IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MIDNIGHT... MAINLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS.  H7
AND H85 THTE RIDGE REMAINS OVER THE MOUNTAINS THROUGH 24 HOURS.
HOWEVER... IT IS PROGRESSING EASTWARD WITH TIME.  AS A RESULT
SUSPECT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE CLOSER TO
THE PERMIAN BASIN OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS.

APPEARS MODELS ARE IN GENERALLY AGREEMENT WITH PROGRESSIVE WEATHER
PATTERN.  HOWEVER... NGM SEEMS A LITTLE TO AGRESSIVE WITH DEEPENING
H5 LOW OVER WESTERN CANADA.  DESPITE THIS... APPEARS H5 RIDGE THAT
HAS BEEN CONTROLLING OUR WEATHER WILL BE PUSHED EASTWARD.  WITH
SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE STREAMING IN AND H7 TEMPERATURES COOLING
SOMEWHAT EXPECT RAIN CHANCES TO RETURN TO THE PERMIAN BASIN OVER THE
NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. HOWEVER... FOR THE SHORT TERM BELIEVE RAIN CHANCES
WILL REMAIN OVER MOUNTAINS AND VICINITY.

AS FOR TEMPERATURES... WILL GO WITH PERSISTENCE AS LOWER LEVELS NOT
CHANGING MUCH.

CNM  73/20
MAF  74/0
MRF  65/20
P07  78/0

EARLE

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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.