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Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 26, 1996, 5:58 PM CDT for Reeves 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
- Aug 26, 1996, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 1996, 8:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Reeves County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 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 262257 FFWMAF TXC389-270155- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 558 PM CDT MON AUG 26 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 855 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TEXAS ...REEVES COUNTY AS OF 550 PM CDT MODERATE TO OCCASIONALLY HEAVY RAIN WITH SOME EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING OVER MUCH OF REEVES COUNTY WHILE DRIFTING NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES PER HOUR. THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF RAINFALL IS LIKELY TO CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES OF 1.5 TO 2 INCHES HAS FALLEN OVER SOUTHERN AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY OVER THE PAST 3 HOURS. NUMEROUS STREETS HAVE BEEN REPORTED UNDERWATER IN THE CITY OF PECOS MAKING TRAVEL DIFFICULT IN THE AREA...ALSO HWY 17 NEAR BALMORHEA WAS UNDERWATER IN ONE SECTION. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS C.ONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. &
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.
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 26, 2:17 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 2:17 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 217 PM CDT (117 PM MDT) MON AUG 26 1996 RECOMMEND CONTINUING FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST TEXAS INTO THE EVENING HOURS. MODELS CONSISTENT IN CONTINUING TO PUSH THE MOISTURE PLUME AND THETA-E RIDGE NORTHWARD IN THE SOUTHERLY FLOW DEPICTED ON AREA RADAR VAD WIND PROFILERS AND JTN PROFILER. KMAF RADAR AND WATER VAPOR IMAGERY INDICATING THE MAIN MOISTURE PLUME AXIS EXTENDING FROM THE BIG BEND INTO SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...GUADALUPE NATIONAL PARK REPORTED NEAR TWO INCHES OF RAIN THIS MORNING...OVER AN INCH REPORTED AT PRESIDIO...VAN HORN AND ALPINE AND NEARLY AN INCH OF RAIN AT CARLSBAD EARLIER TODAY. LIGHTNING DATA CURRENTLY SHOWING A FEW STROKES OVER SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO WITH WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTING A FEW RUMBLES OF THUNDER ACROSS SOUTHWEST TEXAS AS WARMING TEMPERATURES HAS INCREASED THE LIFTED INDEX TO -6 THIS AFTERNOON. OVERCAST CLOUDS...LOWERING AFTER SUNSET...AND ABUNDANT DEEP LAYER TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE SHOWERS OVERNIGHT...WITH AREAS OF FOG REDEVELOPING EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. TROPICAL MOISTURE PERSISTING OVER AREA WITH AFTERNOON HEATING WILL PROVIDE ADDED INSTABILITY FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY AFTERNOON. TEMPS AND POPS FOR OVERNIGHT ARE A BLEND OF GUIDANCE AND PERSISTENCE. CNM 66/60 MAF 66/40 MRF 60/40 P07 72/30 FAGEN/FRAZAR
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 26, 12:43 PM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes before
NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-270500- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1243 PM CDT (1143 AM MDT) MON AUG 26 1996 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS: ANDREWS CULBERSON GLASSCOCK MARTIN REAGAN UPTON BORDEN DAWSON HOWARD MIDLAND REEVES WARD BREWSTER ECTOR JEFF DAVIS PECOS SCURRY WINKLER CRANE GAINES LOVING PRESIDIO TERRELL AND IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO: EDDY LEA SYNOPSIS: A TROPICAL AIR MASS CONTINUES OVER WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING DUE TO DAYTIME HEATING AND CONTINUED TROPICAL MOISTURE MOVING ACROSS THIS AREA. THE MAIN THREAT FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT IS THE POSSIBILITY OF HEAVY RAINS ACROSS ALREADY SATURATED GROUNDS RESULTING IN FLASH FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR CULBERSON...REEVES...JEFF DAVIS AND PRESIDIO COUNTIES WHERE THE HIGHEST POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING CURRENTLY EXISTS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. FAGEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 9:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Presidio | 4 hr |
| Aug 25, 10:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reeves | 4 hr |
| Aug 26, 2:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Presidio | 2 hr |
| Aug 26, 2:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reeves | 3 hr |
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.