Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2006

Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 16, 2006Jeff Davis County, Presidio County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 2006, 2:29 AM CDT for Jeff Davis County, Presidio County, Texas. It was in force for 5 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 16, 2006, 2:29 AM CDT (07:29 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 2006, 7:30 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Jeff Davis County, TX, Presidio County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 267 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 2006-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 491 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 2006-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 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
491 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1738 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
125 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 160734
FFWMAF
TXC243-377-161230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
229 AM CDT WED AUG 16 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  PRESIDIO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...
  JEFF DAVIS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

* UNTIL 730 AM CDT

* AT 227 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED   
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING ACROSS PRESIDIO AND JEFF 
  DAVIS COUNTIES. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH        
  FLOODING OVER THE WARNED AREA.

* THESE STORMS WILL GENERALLY REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS.

EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF ARROYOS AND DRAWS...ROADS
AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS MAY TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES
IN STEEP TERRAIN. 

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 2931 10382 2982 10381 3044 10381 3067 10348
      3086 10378 3108 10407 3061 10501 2981 10460
      2953 10430

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS74 KMAF 160923
FFSMAF

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
417 AM CDT WED AUG 16 2006

TXC243-377-161230-
PRESIDIO-JEFF DAVIS-
417 AM CDT WED AUG 16 2006

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 AM CDT FOR JEFF
DAVIS AND PRESIDIO COUNTIES...

AT 414 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED 
AREA COVERING A LARGE PART OF JEFF DAVIS AND PRESIDIO COUNTY.

LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO 
VALENTINE...RYAN...MARFA AND FORT DAVIS...CANDELARIA.

THE RIVER GAGE AT CANDELARIA INDICATES THAT THE RIO GRANDE IS IN 
FLOOD. RADAR AND SATELLITE INDICATES HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY TO 
CONTINUE ACROSS THIS AREA THROUGH 6 AM AND FLOODING OF RIO GRANDE AT 
CANDELARIA IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THIS MORNING. ALSO FLOODING OF 
NEARBY TRIBUTARIES IS EXPECTED AND THERE MAY WATER OVER SOME OF THE 
ROADS. 

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.

EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF ARROYOS AND DRAWS...ROADS
AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS MAY TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES
IN STEEP TERRAIN. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 2931 10382 2982 10381 3044 10381 3067 10348 3086 10378 
3108 10407 3061 10501 2981 10460 2953 10430

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 15, 7:04 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFCrane4 hr
Aug 15, 7:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEctor4 hr
Aug 15, 8:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFAndrews3 hr
Aug 15, 8:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFMidland115 min
Aug 16, 7:05 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEctor3 hr
Aug 16, 1:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland63 min
Aug 16, 1:50 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEctor, Midland3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2006Every flash flood warning in 2006

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.