Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 82, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 4, 1996, 7:26 PM CDT for Ward County, Texas. It was in force for 119 min. 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 4, 1996, 7:26 PM CDT (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 1996, 9:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ward County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 791 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1647 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 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 050027 FFWMAF TXC475-050225- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 726 PM CDT WED SEP 4 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 925 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TEXAS ...SOUTHEASTERN WARD COUNTY AT 724 PM CDT... THE SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED MINOR FLOODING IN GRANDFALLS. THE STORM PRODUCING THIS FLOODING WAS MOVING SLOWLY SOUTH AT LESS THAN 10 MPH. AN ADDITIONAL ONE INCH OF RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED BEFORE THE STORM MOVES SOUTH AND WEAKENS. AS A RESULT MORE FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS OVER EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN WARD COUNTY... MAINLY IN THE VICINITY OF GRANDFALLS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. &
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 Sep 4, 2:07 PM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 4, 2:07 PM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 207 PM CDT (107 PM MDT) WED SEP 4 1996 MORNING RAOBS PICKED UP A WEAK SOUTHERN STREAM JET EXTENDING FROM EASTERN NEW MEXICO INTO WEST TEXAS...WHICH WAS ALSO INDICATED ON THE 15Z MODEL UPDATE. THIS UPPER LEVEL JET IS ON THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE SOUTHWESTERN US UPPER RIDGE WHICH IS EXPECTED TO PUSH EASTWARD TOWARD THIS AREA AS THE PACIFIC UPPER TROUGH AMPLIFIES DURING THE NEXT DAY OR TWO...WITH WEAK EMBEDDED UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES MOVING THROUGH THE AREA. AFTERNOON LIFTED INDICIES HAVE DECREASED TO -9 ACROSS THE AREA WITH TSRA ALREADY POPPING ACROSS THE PERMIAN BASIN AND ALONG THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS...ALONG THE SURFACE THETA-E RIDGE AND MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AXIS PER THE 18Z MAPS DATA. THE 15Z RUC TRACKS THE UPPER LEVEL JET SLOWLY ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA THIS WED EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. WITH ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE ALREADY IN PLACE...65F DEW POINTS WESTWARD TO THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS MOUNTAINS AND INTO SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...AND WEAK LOW LEVEL BOUNDARIES SETTING UP...CONTINUED LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION A GOOD BET. DESPITE THE UPPER LEVEL JET...MID/LOW LEVEL WINDS ARE WEAK...SO EXPECT STORMS TO BE SLOW MOVERS TODAY...WITH WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS MENTIONED IN THE LOCAL SHORT TERM FORECASTS. POPS AND TEMPS BELOW ARE A BLEND OF GUIDANCE VALUES AND PERSISTENCE. THANKS MUCH TO LBB FOR AFTERNOON FORECAST COORDINATION. CNM 63/30 MAF 64/30 MRF 58/10 P07 69/10 FAGEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 32 min |
| Sep 4, 7:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 98 min |
| Sep 4, 9:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 119 min |
| Sep 4, 9:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Martin | 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.