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Flash Flood Warning 76, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

September 12, 1997Scurry County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 12, 1997, 5:42 PM CDT for Scurry 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
Sep 12, 1997, 5:42 PM CDT (22:42 UTC)
Expired
Sep 12, 1997, 8:40 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Scurry County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 150 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1997-09-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 462 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1997-09-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 157 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
462 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-218 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1284 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
219 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 122245
FFWMAF
TXC415-130140-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
542 PM CDT FRI SEP 12 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 840 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS

   ...NORTHWESTERN SCURRY COUNTY

HEAVY RAINS FROM SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO AFFECT
NORTHWEST SCURRY COUNTY. THROUGH 540 PM...OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN
HAVE BEEN ESTIMATED BY DOPPLER RADAR NEAR FLUVANNA AND DERMOTT.
PERSONS ALONG HIGHWAY 84 ARE ALSO BEING AFFECTED BY HEAVY RAINS.

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.

STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS...YOUR CABLE
TELEVISION OUTLET...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LAT4EST UPDATES AND
POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION.

BB/TT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 12, 3:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFScurry49 min
Sep 12, 3:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland48 min
Sep 12, 5:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFMidland3 hr
Sep 12, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland46 min
Sep 12, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland46 min
Sep 12, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor49 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.