Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Issued

Aug 5, 1996, 12:52 AM CDT (05:52 UTC)

Expired

Aug 5, 1996, 3:40 AM CDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Scurry County, TX

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1252 AM CDT MON AUG 5 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 340 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWEST TEXAS

   ...SCURRY COUNTY
 

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE SLOWLY ACROSS
MUCH OF SCURRY COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF SNYDER.  DOPPLER RADAR
AND SATELLITE BOTH ESTIMATE THAT OVER THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS
FALLEN OVER THE PAST THREE HOURS OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF SCURRY
COUNTY...WITH HEAVY RAINS OF 1 TO 1 1/2 PER HOUR SINCE MIDNIGHT.
THESE STORMS OVER SOUTHERN SCURRY COUNTY ARE MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.

WEATHER SATELLITE INDICATES THAT A GOOD FLOW OF DEEP LAYER MOISTURE
CONTINUES TO STREAM INTO SCURRY COUNTY...THUS THESE SLOW MOVING AND
REDEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH 3 AM
THIS MONDAY MORNING.  NO ACTUAL REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE BEEN
RECEIVED FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS...BUT THE POTENTIAL IS HIGH
FOR IMMINENT FLOODING TO OCCUR ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AREAS.

RESIDENTS OF SCURRY COUNTY SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS WHILE
TRAVELLING AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF
FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.
MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO
FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 4, 9:24 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
921 PM CDT SUN AUG 4 1996

CONVECTION STILL CONTINUES ACROSS PARTS OF THE CWA MAINLY IN PECOS
AND BREWSTER COUNTIES. SATELLITE INDICATES THAT CONVECTION HAS
DEVELOPED IN MOISTURE PLUME THAT EXTENDS FROM NRN MEXICO ACROSS THE
TP AND WRN PB INTO NE NM. 5MA CHART INDICATES THAT CONVECTION MAY BE
AIDED BY TROF TO THE W. WITH MOISTURE AXIS AND POSSIBLE S/W W
SUGGEST MAINTAINING CURRENT POPS ACROSS THE CWA. NO CHANGES.

MURDOCH

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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.