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Flash Flood Warning 99, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 15, 2005Midland County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 15, 2005, 10:07 AM CDT for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Aug 15, 2005, 10:07 AM CDT (15:07 UTC)
Expired
Aug 15, 2005, 1:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Midland County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:09 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 15, 10:45 AM CDTFLASH FLOOD21 S Midland, TXLOCAL TV FORECASTER REPORTED FLOODING ON STATE HIGHWAY 349 AT FARM TO MARKET ROAD 1379. WATER WAS COMING INTO HIS DADS HOME.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 18 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 12:00Z on 2005-08-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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 12:00Z on 2005-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
631 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 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 151510
FFWMAF
TXC329-151800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1007 AM CDT MON AUG 15 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 100 PM CDT

* AT 1004 AM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLOODING
  ON SH 349 BETWEEN MIDLAND AND RANKIN...AND ALSO ON CR 1160 BETWEEN 
  FM 1213 AND CR 300.  NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES WIDESPREAD
  MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS A LARGE PORTION OF THE COUNTY MOVING 
  NORTH AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  VALLEY VIEW...
  MIDLAND...
  GREENWOOD...

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.

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

LAT...LON 3166 10226 3166 10179 3207 10179 3207 10227

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS74 KMAF 151547
FFSMAF

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1045 AM CDT MON AUG 15 2005

TXC329-151800-
MIDLAND-
1045 AM CDT MON AUG 15 2005

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM CDT FOR
MIDLAND COUNTY...

AT 1043 AM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED FLOODING ON SH 349...16 MILES 
SOUTH OF MIDLAND AND DOT IS INVESTIGATING POSSIBLE ROAD CLOSURE DUE 
TO WATER ON ROADWAY. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 
INDICATED LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINFALL MOVING NORTH ACROSS THIS AREA 
AT 20 MPH.

KEEP CHILDREN AWAY FROM CULVERTS... DITCHES... STORM DRAINS...AND
SWOLLEN CREEKS.

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

LAT...LON 3166 10226 3166 10179 3207 10179 3207 10227

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 14, 7:06 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFHoward3 hr
Aug 14, 7:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFMitchell3 hr
Aug 14, 7:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFGlasscock3 hr
Aug 14, 8:41 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFScurry6 hr
Aug 15, 3:59 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFReagan4 hr
Aug 15, 4:48 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFGlasscock4 hr
Aug 15, 6:40 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFMidland3 hr
Aug 15, 6:54 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEctor3 hr
Aug 15, 8:11 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBorden, Howard, Mitchell, Scurry3 hr
Aug 15, 10:19 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFGlasscock3 hr
Aug 15, 11:05 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFUpton3 hr
Aug 15, 11:21 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFCrane3 hr
Aug 15, 11:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFReagan4 hr
Aug 15, 1:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFMidland6 hr
Aug 15, 1:24 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFGlasscock3 hr
Aug 15, 1:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFUpton5 hr
Aug 15, 3:31 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFReagan4 hr
Aug 15, 3:54 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFMitchell4 hr
Aug 15, 4:19 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFGlasscock3 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.