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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2006, 4:47 PM CDT for Brewster County, 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
- Jul 28, 2006, 4:47 PM CDT (21:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2006, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Brewster County, TX, Pecos County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 190 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 1146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1021 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMAF 282148 FFWMAF TXC043-371-290045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 447 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS... NORTH CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 443 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... BELDING... U.S. HIGHWAY 385 BETWEEN FORT STOCKTON AND MARATHON... U.S. HIGHWAY 90 BETWEEN MARATHON AND LONGFELLOW... ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED WHICH COULD INCREASE THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA. 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. DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3011 10330 3012 10276 3084 10286 3089 10313 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KMAF 282330 FFSMAF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 629 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 2006 TXC043-371-290045- PECOS-BREWSTER- 629 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 2006 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL BREWSTER AND CENTRAL PECOS COUNTIES... AT 629 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING OVER THE WARNED AREA. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... BELDING... U.S. HIGHWAY 385 BETWEEN FORT STOCKTON AND MARATHON... AND U.S. HIGHWAY 90 BETWEEN MARATHON AND LONGFELLOW... DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE. TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 3011 10330 3012 10276 3084 10286 3089 10313 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 6:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 9:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Terrell | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 24 min |
| Jul 28, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 66 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.