Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Issued

Jun 2, 1996, 7:53 PM CDT (00:53 UTC)

Expired

Jun 2, 1996, 10:50 PM CDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Area

Whole counties

Counties Crane County, TX, Upton County, TX

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 030053
FFWMAF
TXC103-383-461-030350-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
753 PM CDT SUN JUN 2 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1050 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

   ...CRANE COUNTY
   ...REAGAN COUNTY
   ...UPTON COUNTY
 
AT 745 PM CDT...MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT AS MUCH AS 4
INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN LOCALIZED AREAS OF CRANE...REAGAN...AND
UPTON COUNTIES.  DUE TO THE RELATIVELY SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA...CONTINUED LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL
CAUSE FLASH FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS 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. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 2, 10:30 AM CDT, 9 hours 23 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1030 AM CDT SUN JUN 2 1996

MAF 12Z SOUNDING SHOWING SIGNIFICANT 24 HOUR COOLING AND MOISTENING
BELOW 700 MB.  DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE WITH GOOD ACCURACY LOCATIONS OF
BOUNDARIES AT THIS TIME...HOPING VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGES WILL HELP IN
NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS.  STEADY ENELY UPSLOPE FLOW OVER REGION USUALLY
TOUGH TO GET DEEP CONVECTION GOING AS MAX TEMPS SUPPRESSED BELOW
CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURES.  THINK THAT BOUNDARIES WILL HAVE TO GET IN ON
ACT IN ORDER TO GET LIFT UP TO LFC...TO SUPPORT OF DEEP CONVECTION.
WILL TRIM HIGH TEMP AT MAF BY ONE CATEGORY AS MOIST AIR MASS SUPPRESSES
HEATING.  WITH OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY IN AREA...WILL NEED TO* KEEP POPS IN
BUT AWAY FROM BOUNDARIES AND MOUNTAINS...SHOULD BE TOUGH TO GET STORMS
TO DEVELOP.

MATHEWS

In the hours before

NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-030025-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
652 PM CDT (552 PM MDT) SUN JUN 2 1996

HERE IS AN UPDATE ON ALL OF THE WATCHES IN EFFECT IN WEST TEXAS :

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
#524 IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT :

GLASSCOCK     REAGAN

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
#528 IN EFFECT UNTIL
1000 PM CDT :

GAINES        DAWSON
BORDEN        SCURRY
MARTIN        HOWARD
MITCHELL

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION
FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

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

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.