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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 15, 2006, 1:40 AM CDT for Crane County, Ector 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
- Aug 15, 2006, 1:40 AM CDT (06:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2006, 4:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Crane County, TX, Ector County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:42 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 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 728 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1611 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 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 150642
FFWMAF
TXC103-135-150945-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
140 AM CDT TUE AUG 15 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN ECTOR COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...
NORTHERN CRANE COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 445 AM CDT
* AT 137 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SLOWLY EASTWARD ALONG THE ECTOR
AND CRANE COUNTY LINE. THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING SLOWLY NORTH
TOWARD ODESSA...WHILE ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER
CENTRAL CRANE COUNTY. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING
NEAR TWO INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WEST
ODESSA...PLEASANT FARMS...PENWELL AND ODESSA
FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...LOW
WATER CROSSINGS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE
ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. 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 3138 10276 3135 10231 3195 10230 3186 10278
3168 10278 3165 10276
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KMAF 150755
FFSMAF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
249 AM CDT TUE AUG 15 2006
TXC103-135-150945-
ECTOR-CRANE-
249 AM CDT TUE AUG 15 2006
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 AM CDT FOR
NORTHERN CRANE AND SOUTHERN ECTOR COUNTIES...
AT 246 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING MODERATE
TO HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING EAST AROUND 10 MPH OVER SOUTHERN ECTOR AND
NORTHERN CRANE COUNTIES. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL AMOUNTS WERE OVER
NORTHERN CRANE COUNTY ALONG PORTIONS OF FARM TO MARKET 1053...FARM
TO MARKET 1601...AND BETWEEN THESE TWO ROADWAYS.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WEST
ODESSA...ODESSA...PLEASANT FARMS...PENWELL...AND CRANE
FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...LOW
WATER CROSSINGS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE
ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 3138 10276 3135 10231 3195 10230 3186 10278
3168 10278 3165 10276
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 23 min |
| Aug 14, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 53 min |
| Aug 15, 1:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ward | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 4:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 3 hr |
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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.