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Flash Flood Warning 82, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 2, 2007, 12:24 PM CDT for Reagan 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2007, 12:24 PM CDT (17:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2007, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Reagan County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:25 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMAF 021725 FFWMAF TXC383-022030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1224 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... REAGAN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 330 PM CDT * AT 1221 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR STILES...OR 15 MILES NORTH OF BIG LAKE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... ALL OF REAGAN COUNTY INCLUDING... BIG LAKE... STILES... AND THE NORTH REAGAN FIRE STATION... ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED WHICH COULD INCREASE THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA. 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 3110 10176 3109 10128 3165 10128 3165 10176 $$
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 | Ector | 3 hr |
| 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, 12:34 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 |
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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.