Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 182, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 17, 2007, 10:51 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Scurry County, Texas. It was in force for 6 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 17, 2007, 10:51 PM CDT (03:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2007, 4:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mitchell County, TX, Scurry County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:51 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 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 180354
FFWMAF
TXC335-415-180945-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1051 PM CDT FRI AUG 17 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SCURRY COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...
MITCHELL COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 445 AM CDT
* AT 1042 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED
BANDS OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUING TO MOVE NORTH AT 15 TO 20
MPH ACROSS MUCH OF MITCHELL AND SCURRY COUNTIES. RADAR ESTIMATES
THAT 1.50 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS MOST OF BOTH
COUNTIES THIS EVENING...WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS BETWEEN 3 AND 4
INCHES. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS ARE LIKELY AS ADDITIONAL BANDS
OF HEAVY RAIN MOVE NORTH OVERNIGHT.
* THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT THE
FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
SNYDER...
COLORADO CITY...
HERMLEIGH...
FLUVANNA...
WESTBROOK...
LORAINE...
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAINS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE TO CAUSE
FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS...STREAMS...BAR DITCHES...CULVERTS...CITY
STREETS...AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS THIS EVENING.
MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE...AND MANY OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS
DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. 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.
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 3208 10067 3209 10117 3292 10119 3295 10117
3297 10065
TIME...MOT...LOC 0351Z 161DEG 17KT 3239 10104
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KMAF 180645
FFSMAF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
141 AM CDT SAT AUG 18 2007
TXC335-415-180945-
SCURRY-MITCHELL-
141 AM CDT SAT AUG 18 2007
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 AM CDT FOR
MITCHELL AND SCURRY COUNTIES...
AT 136 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF SCURRY COUNTY. MOST OF THE HEAVY RAIN
HAS MOVED OUT OF MITCHELL COUNTY... BUT LIGHT RAIN CONTINUES TO COVER
THE ENTIRE COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS DETECT 5 MILES NORTH OF
SNYDER...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. FLOODING OF COUNTY ROADS CAN BE
EXPECTED OVERNIGHT.
THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING
LOCATIONS... SNYDER... DERMOTT AND FLUVANNA.
MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE... AND MANY OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS
DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. IT IS NEVER SAFE TO DRIVE ON FLOODED
ROADS. IT TAKES ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER TO QUICKLY
CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 3208 10067 3209 10117 3292 10119 3295 10117
3297 10065
TIME...MOT...LOC 0641Z 160DEG 27KT 3293 10101
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 7:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Howard | 4 hr |
| Aug 17, 7:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 11:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden | 6 hr |
| Aug 17, 11:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard | 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.