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Flash Flood Warning 68, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 28, 1996Gaines County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 28, 1996, 5:15 AM CDT for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 5 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 28, 1996, 5:15 AM CDT (10:15 UTC)
Expired: Aug 28, 1996, 10:10 AM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Gaines County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 85 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1122 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 281015
FFWMAF
TXC165-281510-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
515 AM CDT WED AUG 28 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1010 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWEST TEXAS

   ...CENTRAL AND EASTERN GAINES COUNTY
 
HEAVY RAINFALL HAS BEEN OCCURRING OVER GAINES COUNTY FOR THE LAST
2 HOURS. MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES OVER 2 INCHES HAS FALLEN
OVER THE LAST HOUR. SATELLITE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES ALSO INDICATE
OVER 2 INCHES HAS FALLEN DURING THE LAST HOUR.

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

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 28, 3:19 AM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 3:19 AM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
318 AM CDT WED AUG 28 1996

ANALYSIS OF LATEST WV LOOP INDICATES TROPICAL PLUME CONTINUING OVER
CWA. LATEST IR LOOP SHOWS MOSTLY WARMING TOPS OVER WEST TEXAS AND
SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. LATEST KMAF WSR-88D BASE REFLECTIVITY LOOP
INDICATES SOME LINGERING/DEVELOPING CONVECTION IN NORTHERN CWA.
BELIEVE MOSTLY CLOUDY TO CLOUDY BEST WORDING FOR MOST OF FA TODAY.

LOOKING AT THE MODELS...ETA APPEARS TO BE THE BEST SOLUTION. ETA
BRINGS A VORT MAX THROUGH NORTHERN FA BY 24 HOURS. HOWEVER...CAPES
APPEAR TO ONLY RUN IN THE 200-500 RANGE DURING THIS TIME. ETA ALSO
SHOWING LI VALUES IN THE 0 TO -2 RANGE THROUGH 24 HOURS.
THUS...APPEARS TODAY WILL BE SIMILAR TO YESTERDAY WITH OVERCAST FOR
AM WITH SOME BREAK OUT BY LATE AFTERNOON WITH TRW ACTIVITY. IN
ADDITION...SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AGAIN POSSIBLE TODAY OVER CWA.

AS FOR POPS...PREVIOUS PACKAGE LOOKS GOOD WITH 40 PERCENT THROUGHOUT
CWA.

WITH PLENTY OF MOISTURE AROUND...TEMPERATURES ARE A MIX OF
PERSISTENCE AND GUIDANCE.

THANKS TO LBB FOR GUIDANCE AND INPUT!

CNM 83 40
MAF 83 40
MRF 74 40
P07 87 40

HUBER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 27, 9:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Midland, Reagan, Upton	3 hr
Aug 28, 9:40 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Gaines	3 hr
Aug 28, 1:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Brewster, Jeff Davis	3 hr
Aug 28, 3:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Andrews	4 hr
Aug 28, 6:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Crane, Ector, Midland, Upton	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1996 Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.