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Flash Flood Watch 15, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood watch at Sep 10, 2007, 4:35 AM CDT for 14 counties in Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 23 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 10, 2007, 4:35 AM CDT (09:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2007, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 23 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Loving County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 38 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
- 410 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1765 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 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 Sep 10, 4:18 AM CDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 10, 4:18 AM CDT, 17 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 8:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 3 hr |
| Sep 10, 5:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 4 hr |
| Sep 10, 6:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Texas, 2007Flash Flood Watches in New Mexico, 2007Every flash flood watch 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.