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Flash Flood Watch 6, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood watch at May 16, 2007, 4:47 AM CDT for 19 counties in Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It took effect at May 16, 2007, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 45 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 2007, 4:47 AM CDT (09:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 16, 2007, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 18, 2007, 4:02 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Flood severity
- None
All 21 counties
Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Crane 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, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:50 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 10 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
- 1245 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 962 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
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 May 16, 4:33 AM CDT, 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 16, 4:33 AM CDT, 14 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 15, 2:21 PM CDT, 14 hours 26 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 221 PM CDT TUE MAY 15 2007 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-161930- 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- 221 PM CDT TUE MAY 15 2007 /121 PM MDT TUE MAY 15 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ACROSS THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS...THE MARFA PLATEAU... THE PRESIDIO VALLEY...THE BIG BEND...AND THE LOWER TRANS PECOS REGION. ANOTHER COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS...THE VAN HORN CORRIDOR...AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO LATE TONIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS COULD CAUSE AREAS OF FLOODING TO DEVELOP. LOCALIZED HIGH WINDS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS GAP LOCATIONS OF THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS...INCLUDING GUADALUPE PASS...LATE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY...WITH AT LEAST A CHANCE OF RAIN CONTINUING MOST AREAS INTO THE COMING WEEKEND. LOCATIONS FROM THE SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS AND GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS...SOUTH/ SOUTHEASTWARD THROUGH THE VAN HORN AREA...DAVIS MOUNTAINS...MARFA PLATEAU...PRESIDIO VALLEY...AND BIG BEND REGION APPEAR TO HAVE THE BEST CHANCE THROUGH MOST OF THIS TIME FRAME. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DO NOT APPEAR LIKELY AT THIS TIME ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND POSSIBLY FLASH FLOODING AND RIVER FLOODING...ALONG THE RIO GRANDE COULD OCCUR. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY OFFICIALS ARE ADVISED TO MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND PREPARE FOR POTENTIAL IMPACTS DUE TO THE POSSIBILITY FOR HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING THROUGH THURSDAY. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 59 min |
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.