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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 7, 2007, 5:55 PM CDT for Dawson County, Texas. 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 2007, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2007, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
- Flood severity
- None
County Dawson County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 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 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 1190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -179 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1104 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 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 072255 FFWMAF TXC115-080200- /X.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0007.070907T2255Z-070908T0200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 555 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... DAWSON COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 552 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR LAMESA...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... LAMESA... KEY... MIDWAY... EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS... URBAN AREAS... HIGHWAYS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. LAT...LON 3293 10215 3294 10171 3254 10172 3254 10217 TIME...MOT...LOC 2255Z 262DEG 10KT 3275 10191 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KMAF 072258 FFSMAF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 557 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2007 TXC115-080200- /X.CON.KMAF.FF.W.0007.000000T0000Z-070908T0200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ DAWSON- 557 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR DAWSON COUNTY... AT 556 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LAMESA...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATE STREET FLOODING IN LAMESA WITH OVER A FOOT OF WATER RUNNING ACROSS PORTIONS OF HWY 87. DO NOT ALLOW CHILDREN TO PLAY IN STORM RUNOFF. CULVERTS...DITCHES... STORM DRAINS... SWOLLEN CREEKS AND ALL OTHER AREAS WHERE RAPID WATER FLOW IS OBSERVED ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. CHILDREN CAN BE EASILY SWEPT AWAY AND DROWN IN MOMENTS. STORM RUNOFF CAN ALSO CONTAIN DANGEROUS CHEMICALS THAT MAY BE HARMFUL IF CONTACTED OR SWALLOWED. FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. LAT...LON 3293 10215 3294 10171 3254 10172 3254 10217 TIME...MOT...LOC 2257Z 262DEG 10KT 3275 10190 $$
000 WGUS74 KMAF 080034 FFSMAF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 728 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2007 TXC115-080200- /X.CON.KMAF.FF.W.0007.000000T0000Z-070908T0200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ DAWSON- 728 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR DAWSON COUNTY... AT 725 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLOODING IN FOREST PARK ON SOUTH 9TH STREET ON THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE TOWN OF LAMESA AND ALONG LOW LYING AREAS ACROSS MUCH OF LAMESA. AT 725 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY NEAR PATRICIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL EXPECTED ALONG WITH THE HEAVY RAINFALL THAT OCCURRED EARLIER THIS EVENING WILL AGGRAVATE THE FLASH FLOODING NEAR PATRICIA. FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. LAT...LON 3293 10215 3294 10171 3254 10172 3254 10217 TIME...MOT...LOC 0028Z 262DEG 10KT 3279 10160 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Martin | 59 min |
| Sep 7, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 53 min |
| Sep 7, 3:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 62 min |
| Sep 7, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 53 min |
| Sep 7, 6:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 62 min |
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.