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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 7, 2007, 9:06 PM CDT for Gaines 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, 9:06 PM CDT (02:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2007, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
- Flood severity
- None
County Gaines County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:06 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 855 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2302 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 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 080224 FFWMAF TXC165-080500- /X.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0009.070908T0206Z-070908T0500Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 921 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... GAINES COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT * AT 921 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING FROM SEMINOLE TO SEAGRAVES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATES OF UP TO 1.5 INCHES OF RAINFALL PER HOUR OVER WESTERN GAINES COUNTY CAN BE SEEN. MOTORISTS TRAVELING ON U.S. HIGHWAY 62/180...TEXAS STATE HIGHWAY 181...TEXAS STATE HIGHWAY 214...OR U.S. 385 SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ENCOUNTER HEAVY RAIN AND MINOR FLOODING. * THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... SEMINOLE... SEAGRAVES... LOOP... FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. 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. LAT...LON 3294 10304 3295 10236 3253 10238 3253 10304 TIME...MOT...LOC 0206Z 225DEG 9KT 3275 10276 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KMAF 080310 FFSMAF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1008 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2007 TXC165-080500- /X.CON.KMAF.FF.W.0009.000000T0000Z-070908T0500Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ GAINES- 1008 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR GAINES COUNTY... AT 1005 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A LARGE THUNDERSTORM ACROSS ALL OF EASTERN GAINES COUNTY. THIS STORM IS BELIEVED TO BE PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING. THE CENTER OF THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF FAIRVIEW...OR 11 MILES EAST OF SEMINOLE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT BETWEEN TWO AND THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST GAINES COUNTY DURING THE PAST HOUR. MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE... AND MANY OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. IT IS NEVER SAFE TO DRIVE ON FLOODED ROADS. IT TAKES ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER TO QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN. FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3294 10304 3295 10236 3253 10238 3253 10304 TIME...MOT...LOC 0308Z 252DEG 12KT 3276 10245 $$
000 WGUS74 KMAF 080447 FFSMAF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1140 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2007 TXC165-080500- /X.CON.KMAF.FF.W.0009.000000T0000Z-070908T0500Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ GAINES- 1140 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR GAINES COUNTY... AT 1135 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF SEMINOLE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATES OF 3 INCHES OVER THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY HAS BEEN SEEN. NEW DEVELOPMENT OVER WESTERN GAINES COUNTY COULD LEAD TO ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 INCH. FLASH FLOODING IN THE CITY OF SEMINOLE AND OTHER SMALL TOWNS WILL BE POSSIBLE. FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...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. 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. LAT...LON 3294 10304 3295 10236 3253 10238 3253 10304 TIME...MOT...LOC 0440Z 252DEG 12KT 3285 10210 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 10:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 10:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 11:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Gaines | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 1:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson | 4 hr |
| Sep 8, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 45 min |
| Sep 8, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson | 53 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2007Every flash flood warning in 2007
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.