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Flash Flood Watch 7, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood watch at Oct 15, 2006, 4:24 AM CDT for 11 counties in Texas. It took effect at Oct 15, 2006, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 22 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 15, 2006, 4:24 AM CDT (09:24 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 15, 2006, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 16, 2006, 4:38 AM CDT
- In force
- 22 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Scurry County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:26 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 438 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 705 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Oct 15, 3:55 AM CDT, 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 15, 3:55 AM CDT, 29 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 14, 2:52 PM CDT, 13 hours 32 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 252 PM CDT SAT OCT 14 2006 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-152000- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS- NORTHERN LEA COUNTY-CENTRAL LEA COUNTY-SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY-GAINES- DAWSON-BORDEN-SCURRY-ANDREWS-MARTIN-HOWARD-MITCHELL- VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR- REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS-LOVING-WINKLER-ECTOR-MIDLAND- GLASSCOCK-WARD-CRANE-UPTON-REAGAN-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA- PECOS-PRESIDIO VALLEY-MARFA PLATEAU-BIG BEND AREA-TERRELL- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- 252 PM CDT SAT OCT 14 2006 /152 PM MDT SAT OCT 14 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. SOME OF THE THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREATS. THESE STRONGER STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUR ALONG AND NORTH OF A VAN HORN...KERMIT...AND HOBBS LINE. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT...MAINLY FROM THE UPPER TRANS PECOS NORTHWARD THROUGH SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...AND NORTHEASTWARD OVER THE PERMIAN BASIN AND WESTERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY STRONG WEST WINDS MAY MATERIALIZE IN THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS ON MONDAY BEHIND AN EASTWARD MOVING UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING...MAINLY FROM THE VAN HORN AREA AND UPPER TRANS PECOS... NORTHWARD THROUGH THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES... AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN MIDLAND CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT /LOWER CASE/ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/MIDLAND
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 15, 12:06 AM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1206 AM CDT SUN OCT 15 2006 TXZ074-081-150600- BIG BEND AREA-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA- 1206 AM CDT SUN OCT 15 2006 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT... THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR NORTHERN BREWSTER COUNTY. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF ALTUDA AT 1206 AM CDT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS U.S.90 BETWEEN ALPINE AND MARATHON. GUSTY WINDS... SMALL HAIL... HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Presidio | 62 min |
| Oct 14, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 57 min |
| Oct 14, 10:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Gaines | 3 hr |
| Oct 15, 1:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster, Jeff Davis, Pecos | 3 hr |
| Oct 15, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson | 56 min |
| Oct 15, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 53 min |
| Oct 15, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 61 min |
| Oct 15, 6:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reeves | 49 min |
| Oct 15, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 44 min |
| Oct 15, 7:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 37 min |
| Oct 15, 9:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 61 min |
| Oct 15, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 57 min |
| Oct 15, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 64 min |
| Oct 15, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 59 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Texas, 2006Every flash flood watch 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.