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Flash Flood Warning 166, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2007, 3:23 AM CDT for Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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
- Aug 2, 2007, 3:23 AM CDT (08:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2007, 7:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Upton County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:23 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 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 1748 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1309 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMAF 020825 FFWMAF TXC461-021230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 323 AM CDT THU AUG 2 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... UPTON COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 730 AM CDT * AT 318 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CAPABLE OF FLASH FLOODING OVER THE WARNED AREA. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FM 1492...HIGHWAY 329...AND MIDKIFF. FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... ROADS...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. TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 3165 10229 3163 10178 3111 10179 3111 10228 TIME...MOT...LOC 0823Z 180DEG 0KT 3147 10212 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 10:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 11:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Martin | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 12:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard | 4 hr |
| Aug 2, 12:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 1:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector | 4 hr |
| Aug 2, 2:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 4 hr |
| Aug 2, 2:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Crane | 4 hr |
| Aug 2, 2:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 4 hr |
| Aug 2, 3:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 5 hr |
| Aug 2, 4:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 4 hr |
| Aug 2, 5:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 4 hr |
| Aug 2, 5:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Winkler | 4 hr |
| Aug 2, 7:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reeves | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 8:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 1:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Terrell | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 2:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 4:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster, Presidio | 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.