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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 28, 1997Brewster County, Jeff Davis County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 1997, 3:18 PM CDT for Brewster County, Jeff Davis County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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: May 28, 1997, 3:18 PM CDT (20:18 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1997, 4:20 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Brewster County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 235 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 235 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 927 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 734 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 282019
FFWMAF
TXC043-243-282120-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
318 PM CDT WED MAY 28 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD
AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 420 PM CDT

IN WESTERN TEXAS

   ...NORTHWESTERN BREWSTER COUNTY
   ...SOUTHEASTERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY
 
AT 316 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ALPINE OR 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
FORT DAVIS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS...HOWEVER FLASH
FLOODING IS POSSIBLE ALONG HIGHWAY 118 BETWEEN FORT DAVIS AND ALPINE.

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 WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

TJT/GPM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis	45 min
May 28, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Jeff Davis	62 min
May 28, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	65 min
May 28, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	64 min
May 28, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	45 min
May 28, 6:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Andrews	47 min
May 28, 6:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Ector	47 min
May 28, 6:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Andrews	48 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1997 Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.