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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 5, 1998, 6:34 PM CDT for Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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
- Oct 5, 1998, 6:34 PM CDT (23:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 5, 1998, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Terrell County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 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
- 3367 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 7.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 052335 FFWMAF TXC443-060205- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 634 PM CDT MON OCT 5 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN TERRELL COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 630 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED OVER NORTHERN TERRELL COUNTY ALONG AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 349... MOVING SLOWLY EAST. * EXCESSIVE RAINFALL AT THE RATE OF 2 INCHES PER HOUR WILL PRODUCE FLOODING THROUGH 900 PM CDT. DON'T DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS! MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. RRF/EMP
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 Oct 5, 3:19 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 5, 3:19 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 319 PM CDT (219 PM MDT) MON OCT 5 1998 SHALLOW COLD FRONT HAS BEEN ERODING ON ITS LEADING EDGE AS DAYTIME HEATING MODIFIES THE AIRMASS. KMAF HAS BEEN FLIRTING WITH W TO NW WINDS LAST SEVERAL HOURS. FRONT APPEARS HUNG UP ON THE WESTERN END AND AT 20Z STRETCHED FROM NORTH OF KCNM... TO KMAF... TO NORTH OF KSJT. COOLER AIR STILL LAGGED TO THE NORTH. FRONT EXPECTED TO GET MOVING AGAIN TONIGHT AND PUSH THROUGH MOST OF THE AREA BY MIDDAY TOMORROW. STILL EXPECT WIDELY SCATTERED/SCATTERED LATE AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF THE AREA AS THERE ARE SEVERAL BOUNDARIES TO FOCUS DEVELOPMENT ON. AS COOLER AIR HAS BEEN RELUCTANT TO MOVE SOUTH... OVERNIGHT LOWS ARE A PROBLEM. GUIDANCE HAS BEEN TOO COOL... WILL STAY ABOVE. MAF 55/74 0/0 CNM 50/75 0/0 MRF 59/74 0/0 P07 63/78 3/1 72
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 63 min |
| Oct 5, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 62 min |
| Oct 5, 6:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Terrell | 61 min |
| Oct 5, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 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.