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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 1997, 2:53 PM CDT for Terrell 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
- Jun 6, 1997, 2:53 PM CDT (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1997, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Terrell County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 2302 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 595 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 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 061955 FFWMAF TXC443-062300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 253 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WESTERN TEXAS ...CENTRAL TERRELL COUNTY AT 250 PM CDT... MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR HAD ESTIMATED BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF SANDERSON. THE STORM RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS RAINFALL HAS MOVED VERY LITTLE OVER THE LAST HOUR AND IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OVER THE NEXT HOUR. PERSONS ALONG HIGHWAY 90 AND 285 IN THE VICINITY OF SANDERSON SHOULD WATCH FOR WATER COVERING THE ROADWAY. 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 Jun 6, 9:22 AM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 9:22 AM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 920 AM CDT (820 AM MDT) FRI JUN 6 1997 MCS CONVECTION ACROSS EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN AT 9 AM FINALLY ON THE DECREASE. SATELLITE AND RADAR PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES SHOW HEAVIER RAINFALL AMOUNTS JUST EAST OF FORECAST AREA. OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM MCS EVIDENT ON KMAF RADAR ALONG A HOBBS-MONAHANS LINE...THIS BOUNDARY MAY PROVIDE FOCUS FOR REINITIATION OF SCATTERED CONVECTION LATER THIS AFTERNOON OVER WESTERN PERMIAN BASIN...WHERE SURFACE MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND BREAKS IN CLOUDINESS APPEAR MORE FAVORABLE ON HOURLY MESOSCALE ADAP CHARTS. WINDS ALOFT ARE WEAK...WITH THE MAJOR THUNDERSTORM THREAT OF HEAVY RAINFALL LATER TODAY. TEMPERATURES FORECASTS OF BELOW NORMAL HIGHS OVER MUCH OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO APPEAR ON TRACK GIVEN CURRENT WIDESPEAD CLOUDINESS AND FORECAST SOUNDINGS...WITH AFTERNOON HIGHS CLOSER TO NORMALS OVER WESTERN AREAS. FRANCIS/FAGEN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 9:48 AM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before
NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-070500- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 948 AM CDT (848 AM MDT) FRI JUN 6 1997 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: AMPLE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE ALONG WITH AN OLD OUTFLOW BOUNDARY WILL PROVIDE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS GENERALLY WEST OF A LAMESA TO MIDLAND TO SANDERSON LINE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A LESSER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST EAST OF THIS LINE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY APPROACH SEVERE LEVELS. HOWEVER...WEAK WINDS ALOFT WILL DIMINISH THE SEVERE THREAT WITH HEAVY RAINFALL A MORE LIKELY RESULT FROM THESE STORMS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TONIGHT AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES THE AREA. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. FOR THE WEST CENTRAL TEXAS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT LBBSPSSJT. FOR THE SOUTH PLAINS OUTLOOK SEEN PRODUCT LBBSPSLBB. FRANCIS/FAGEN/EARLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 60 min |
| Jun 6, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson | 61 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.