Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 151, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 21, 2007, 6:22 PM CDT for Reeves County, Texas. It took effect at Jul 21, 2007, 6:27 PM CDT. 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 2007, 6:22 PM CDT (23:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 21, 2007, 6:27 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2007, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Reeves County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 1149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 588 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMAF 212327 FFWMAF TXC389-220215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 622 PM CDT SAT JUL 21 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN REEVES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 614 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL ACROSS NORTHWESTERN REEVES COUNTY. AT 614 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR HAD ESTIMATED AN HOURLY RAINFALL RATE OF 2 TO 5 INCHES PER HOUR SINCE 514 PM CDT ALONG AND WEST OF UNITED STATES HIGHWAY 285...5 MILES SOUTH OF ORLA. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED WHICH WILL INCREASE THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ORLA... HIGHWAY 285 SOUTH OF ORLA. FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... LOW WATER CROSSINGS... NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. LAT...LON 3161 10361 3157 10403 3190 10401 3194 10396 TIME...MOT...LOC 2322Z 180DEG 0KT 3176 10393 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 9:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Crane | 3 hr |
| Jul 21, 11:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 13 more | 24 hr |
| Jul 21, 2:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 3 hr |
| Jul 21, 3:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 3 hr |
| Jul 21, 4:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Winkler | 3 hr |
| Jul 21, 5:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Loving | 3 hr |
| Jul 21, 6:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Culberson | 3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.