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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 25, 2005Howard County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 2005, 10:17 PM CDT for Howard 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 2005, 10:17 PM CDT (03:17 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2005, 1:15 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Howard County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:17 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 88 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 00:00Z on 2005-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2438 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 00:00Z on 2005-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 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
2438 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2457 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.3

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 260322 CCA
FFWMAF
TXC227-260615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1017 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN HOWARD COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 115 AM CDT

* AT 1012 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED U.S ROUTE 87 
AND FARM TO MARKET ROUTE 33 COVERED WITH WATER. FLASH FLOODING OF 
CREEKS AND STREAMS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES ESPECIALLY IN THE BIG 
SPRING AREA...LOW WATER CROSSINGS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS 
LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA... MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND
IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS... CREEKS... AND OTHER
LOW LYING AREAS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND
PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF
UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE.

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

LAT...LON 3233 10118 3209 10117 3210 10155 3233 10155

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 7:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGlasscock, Reagan42 min
May 25, 7:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Pecos55 min
May 25, 7:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton42 min
May 25, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland67 min
May 25, 7:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFCrane, Pecos3 hr
May 25, 8:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReagan42 min
May 25, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGlasscock46 min
May 25, 9:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGlasscock52 min
May 25, 9:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward46 min
May 25, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward47 min
May 25, 11:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson66 min
May 25, 11:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines55 min
May 25, 11:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews54 min
May 26, 12:31 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFGaines3 hr
May 26, 12:39 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFDawson3 hr
May 26, 12:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines37 min
May 26, 3:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving54 min
May 26, 4:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWinkler51 min
May 26, 5:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWard46 min
May 26, 5:18 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEctor3 hr
May 26, 6:32 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFUpton4 hr
May 26, 7:10 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFReagan4 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.