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Flash Flood Warning 79, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 2, 2007Ector County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 2, 2007, 12:07 PM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 2, 2007, 12:07 PM CDT (17:07 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2007, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Ector County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:08 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 2, 12:42 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Odessa, TX	MOSS ROAD COVERED WITH THREE AND A HALF FEET OF STANDING WATER...FLOODING ALSO REPORTED ALONG UNIVERSITY ROAD.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 34 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 948 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 909 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 021707
FFWMAF
TXC135-022000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1207 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ECTOR COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT

* AT 1159 AM CDT...WIDESPREAD FLOODING AND FLASH FLOODING CONTINUED
  TO BE REPORTED BY LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND MEDIA. THOUGH THE
  RAINFALL IS ENDING ACROSS ECTOR COUNTY...IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME
  FOR WATER TO RUN OFF.

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.

MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE... AND MANY OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS
DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. IT IS NEVER SAFE TO DRIVE ON FLOODED
ROADS. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER TO QUICKLY
CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN.

TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.

LAT...LON 3165 10280 3165 10229 3208 10230 3208 10279

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 4:05 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 11 more	17 hr
May 2, 7:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Loving, Winkler	61 min
May 2, 7:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	61 min
May 2, 8:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Loving, Winkler	65 min
May 2, 8:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	67 min
May 2, 8:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Winkler	3 hr
May 2, 8:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Ector	3 hr
May 2, 9:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Winkler	65 min
May 2, 9:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	65 min
May 2, 9:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	65 min
May 2, 10:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Midland	4 hr
May 2, 10:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	67 min
May 2, 10:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	53 min
May 2, 10:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	65 min
May 2, 10:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ward	60 min
May 2, 10:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	62 min
May 2, 11:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Upton	59 min
May 2, 11:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Howard	5 hr
May 2, 11:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	53 min
May 2, 11:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard, Mitchell	63 min
May 2, 12:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	42 min
May 2, 12:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Dawson	4 hr
May 2, 12:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Glasscock	3 hr
May 2, 12:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	59 min
May 2, 12:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Reagan	3 hr
May 2, 12:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	40 min
May 2, 1:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	67 min
May 2, 1:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	33 min
May 2, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson	54 min
May 2, 3:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Culberson	3 hr
May 2, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson	54 min
May 2, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	44 min
May 2, 4:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Culberson	64 min
May 2, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	29 min
May 2, 5:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Culberson	43 min
May 2, 5:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis	63 min
May 2, 6:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis	51 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.