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Flash Flood Warning 113, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 16, 2005Mitchell County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 2005, 5:21 AM CDT for Mitchell County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 16, 2005, 5:21 AM CDT (10:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 2005, 9:15 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mitchell County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:24 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 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1257 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 161026
FFWMAF
TXC335-161415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
521 AM CDT TUE AUG 16 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MITCHELL COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 915 AM CDT

* AT 519 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL OVER MUCH OF MITCHELL
  COUNTY. THIS HEAVY RAINFALL WILL FALL ON ALREADY SATURATED SOILS
  RESULTING IN FLASH FLOODING. STATE HIGHWAY 163 AND FARM TO MARKET
  ROAD 2183 WILL BE MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE FLOODING.

MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE...AND MANY OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS
DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. IT IS NEVER SAFE TO DRIVE ON FLOODED
ROADS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY
AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED WHICH COULD INCREASE THE POTENTIAL
FOR FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA.

TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.

LAT...LON 3210 10117 3209 10068 3251 10067 3251 10117

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KMAF 161333
FFSMAF

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
830 AM CDT TUE AUG 16 2005

TXC335-161415-
MITCHELL-
830 AM CDT TUE AUG 16 2005

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 AM CDT FOR
MITCHELL COUNTY...

AT 829 AM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED KUDDICK 
PARK ROAD WAS FLOODED AND HAS BEEN BLOCKED OFF.  STATE HIGHWAY 163 
AND FM 2183 IS ALSO BELIEVED TO BE EXPERIENCING FLOODING.  NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF LIGHT TO 
MODERATE RAINFALL MOVING ACROSS MITCHELL COUNTY WILL CONTINUE THE
RUNOFF.

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. MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE. TURN 
AROUND... DONT DROWN.

TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.

LAT...LON 3210 10117 3209 10068 3251 10067 3251 10117

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 15, 11:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Scurry	3 hr
Aug 15, 11:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Mitchell	3 hr
Aug 16, 4:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Glasscock	3 hr

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.