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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 9, 2005Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 2005, 4:44 PM CDT for Pecos 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: Jun 9, 2005, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2005, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 3146 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -142 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 840 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 092144
FFWMAF
TXC371-100045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
444 PM CDT THU JUN 9 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 438 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
  FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BELDING...
  OR ABOUT 25 MILES NORTH OF MARATHON...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  WESTERN PECOS COUNTY...
  CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY...

RUNOFF FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY IMPACT HIGHWAY 67 BETWEEN HOVEY 
AND FORT STOCKTON.

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.

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

LAT...LON 3057 10331 3080 10327 3080 10293 3073 10289
      3050 10293 3047 10315

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	58 min
Jun 8, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	52 min
Jun 8, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	39 min
Jun 9, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	56 min
Jun 9, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	67 min
Jun 9, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	61 min
Jun 9, 4:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	60 min
Jun 9, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	58 min
Jun 9, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	64 min
Jun 9, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ward	53 min
Jun 9, 6:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Brewster	54 min
Jun 9, 6:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Ward	3 hr
Jun 9, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ward	41 min
Jun 9, 6:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	62 min
Jun 9, 6:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Brewster	62 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.