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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 14, 1997, 8:40 PM CDT for Borden 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
- May 14, 1997, 8:40 PM CDT (01:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1997, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Borden County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:41 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 566 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2720 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 150142 FFWMAF TXC033-150430- BULLTIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 840 PM CDT WED MAY 14 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CDT...AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS ...EASTERN BORDEN COUNTY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS NWHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. TURNAGE/MATHEWS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 48 min |
| May 14, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 47 min |
| May 14, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 47 min |
| May 14, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson, Martin | 49 min |
| May 14, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 47 min |
| May 14, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 47 min |
| May 14, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 47 min |
| May 14, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 32 min |
| May 14, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 47 min |
| May 14, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 3 hr |
| May 14, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 50 min |
| May 14, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 49 min |
| May 14, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 31 min |
| May 14, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 34 min |
| May 15, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 50 min |
| May 15, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 61 min |
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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.