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Flash Flood Watch 11, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood watch at Jul 30, 2007, 11:35 AM CDT for 5 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jul 30, 2007, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 30, 2007, 11:35 AM CDT (16:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 30, 2007, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2007, 4:49 AM CDT
- In force
- 17 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Crane County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Upton County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:34 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 1070 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Jul 30, 11:16 AM CDT, 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 11:16 AM CDT, 19 minutes before
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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.