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Flash Flood Watch 16, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood watch at Sep 11, 2007, 4:46 AM CDT for Pecos County, Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 11, 2007, 4:46 AM CDT (09:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2007, 2:31 PM CDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Pecos County, TX, Terrell County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:46 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 2245 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 980 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.4
- Supercell composite
- -2.1
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 11, 4:10 AM CDT, 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 11, 4:10 AM CDT, 36 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 10, 2:45 PM CDT, 14 hours 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 245 PM CDT MON SEP 10 2007 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-111945- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS- NORTHERN LEA COUNTY-CENTRAL LEA COUNTY-SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY-GAINES- DAWSON-BORDEN-SCURRY-ANDREWS-MARTIN-HOWARD-MITCHELL- VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR- REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS-LOVING-WINKLER-ECTOR-MIDLAND- GLASSCOCK-WARD-CRANE-UPTON-REAGAN-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA- PECOS-PRESIDIO VALLEY-MARFA PLATEAU-BIG BEND AREA-TERRELL- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- 245 PM CDT MON SEP 10 2007 /145 PM MDT MON SEP 10 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED OVER ALL OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO TONIGHT. THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OVER THE PERMIAN BASIN...THE UPPER TRANS PECOS...THE STOCKTON PLATEAU AND THE LOWER TRANS PECOS REGION. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE... BUT HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH ANY OF THE STORMS. WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH AND DANGEROUS LIGHTING MAY ALSO ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE PERMIAN BASIN...THE STOCKTON PLATEAU...THE TRANS PECOS REGION...THE VAN HORN CORRIDOR AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED WEST OF THE PECOS RIVER TUESDAY AFTERNOON. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES... AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN MIDLAND CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT /LOWER CASE/ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/MIDLAND
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 10:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Gaines | 3 hr |
| Sep 10, 11:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson | 4 hr |
| Sep 11, 2:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
| Sep 10, 9:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 3 hr |
| Sep 11, 1:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 4 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.