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Flash Flood Warning 60, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 11, 2008, 11:32 PM CDT for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 5 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 11, 2008, 11:32 PM CDT (04:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 2008, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Brewster County, TX
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this flash flood warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 265 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
- 769 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 717 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMAF 120432
FFWMAF
TXC043-120930-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0060.080912T0432Z-080912T0930Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1132 PM CDT THU SEP 11 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
WESTERN BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 430 AM CDT
* AT 1122 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED
A LARGE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS MUCH OF WESTERN
BREWSTER COUNTY. THESE STORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR HOVEY...TO
ALPINE AND MARATHON...AND SOUTHWARD TO NEAR LAJITAS AND CASTOLON.
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS...WHICH WILL LIKELY
PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...LOW WATER
CROSSINGS...AS WELL AS URBAN AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS. THE SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING
LOCATIONS...
ALPINE...
MARATHON...
LAJITAS...
U.S. HIGHWAYS 67 AND 90...
STATE HIGHWAY 118...
FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW
WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO ARROYOS... DRAWS... AND OTHER LOW LYING
AREAS. HEAVY RAINFALL... EVEN FROM DISTANT STORMS... CAN CREATE
SUDDEN FLOWS CAPABLE OF OVERTAKING CAMPERS AND HIKERS. MOVE UP TO
ESCAPE RISING WATER.
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 2927 10378 3040 10379 3066 10343 3030 10297
2926 10341
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KMAF 120730
FFSMAF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
230 AM CDT FRI SEP 12 2008
TXC043-120930-
/O.CON.KMAF.FF.W.0060.000000T0000Z-080912T0930Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BREWSTER-
230 AM CDT FRI SEP 12 2008
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 AM CDT FOR
WESTERN BREWSTER COUNTY...
AT 223 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF BREWSTER
COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST OF THESE STORMS WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF
MARATHON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 2927 10378 3040 10379 3066 10343 3030 10297
2926 10341
$$What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning 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 warning went out at Sep 11, 6:26 PM CDT, 5 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 11, 6:26 PM CDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
626 PM CDT THU SEP 11 2008
.DISCUSSION...
SEE AVIATION DISCUSSION BELOW.
&&
.AVIATION...
MORE BUSY TAFS WITH SHRA/TSRA IN MOIST SW MID LEVEL FLOW. BASED ON
RADAR TRENDS HAVE LEFT TEMPO TSRA GROUPS AT ALL SITES EXCEPT CNM
THROUGH 02Z-04Z. HAVE OPTED TO END PRECIP 04Z-09Z AT MOST SITES
AND THEN RE-INTRODUCE FROM 09Z BUT AS USUAL PRECIP DIFFICULT TO TIME.
MVFR CIGS WILL BE WIDESPREAD WITH IFR CIGS POSSIBLE IN/NEAR CELLS.
&&
.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 257 PM CDT THU SEP 11 2008/
DISCUSSION...
CURRENT SURFACE ANALYSIS IS SHOWS A NEAR N/S ORIENTED COLD FRONT
SITUATED FROM GARDEN CITY KS SOUTHWARD INTO SOUTHEASTERN NM.
CONVECTION IS DEVELOPING AHEAD OF THIS FRONT ACROSS THE WESTERN
PERMIAN BASIN...UPPER TRANS PECOS...AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO
WHICH ALIGNS NICELY WITH AN H85 THETA E AXIS. GFS SHOWS THIS AXIS
NOT MOVING MUCH...AND WITH IT ORIENTED PARALLEL TO THE MID AND
UPPER LEVEL FLOW SUGGESTS THE POSSIBILITY FOR QUITE A BIT OF
TRAINING FROM THESE CELLS THE NEXT 24 HOURS. THEREFORE EXPANDED
THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH TO ENCOMPASS THE COUNTIES MOST LIKELY TO SEE
PRECIP THROUGH TONIGHT. CANNOT RULE OUT THE NEED TO EXPAND THE
WATCH EASTWARD OR TRIM IT BACK IN THE SOUTH WHERE PRECIP CHANCES
NOW ARE NOT AS FAVORABLE AS AREAS FURTHER NORTH. ALSO MAY NEED TO
EXTEND THE WATCH FURTHER IN TIME BUT WILL LEAVE THAT FOR LATER
SHIFTS TO DECIDE.
UNDERCUT GUIDANCE FOR MAX TEMPS TOMORROW FOR A FEW LOCATIONS...AND
FEAR I DID NOT DO IT ENOUGH WITH THE PROBABLE CLOUD COVER AND
PRECIP IN THE AREA. WITH THE PROJECTED PATH OF IKE NOW MORE
CERTAIN TO REMAIN WELL EAST OF THE AREA TRIMMED BACK POPS THIS
WEEKEND AND DOUBT WE WILL SEE ANY RAIN NEXT WEEK.
THE DEPARTURE OF IKE WILL BRING COOL NORTHERLY FLOW TO WEST TEXAS
FOR MOST OF NEXT WEEK. THE MEX REFLECTS THIS...HOWEVER THE
GFS/ECMWF/NOGAPS ALL SHOW H85 TEMPS WHICH INDICATE HIGH TEMPS WILL
NOT EVEN REACH THE COOLER MEX GUIDANCE. THEREFORE DECIDED TO
GENERALLY UNDERCUT MEX TEMPS MOST ALL NEXT WEEK BY 3 TO 5 DEGREES
AND AS A START. LEFT MIN TEMPS ALONE FOR NOW AS THEY ARE WELL
BELOW NORMAL...HOWEVER WITH CLEAR SKIES AND SURFACE RIDGING OVER
THE AREA WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF THESE TEMPS MIGHT NEED TO COME
DOWN A BIT FURTHER AS WELL. THIS WOULD MAKE FOR THE COOLEST
WEATHER SINCE THE SPRING AND WOULD BE A WELCOME RESPITE FROM THE
SUMMER HEAT.
HENNIG
&&
.MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NM...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 5 AM MDT FRIDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES... CENTRAL LEA COUNTY...EDDY COUNTY PLAINS...
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY...NORTHERN LEA COUNTY...
SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY.
TX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 6 AM CDT /5 AM MDT/ FRIDAY FOR THE
FOLLOWING ZONES... ANDREWS...BIG BEND AREA...DAVIS/APACHE
MOUNTAINS AREA...GAINES...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS...LOVING...
MARFA PLATEAU...PECOS...PRESIDIO VALLEY...REEVES COUNTY AND
UPPER TRANS PECOS...TERRELL...VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54
CORRIDOR...WARD...WINKLER.
&&Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 11, 1:51 PM CDT, 9 hours 41 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 151 PM CDT THU SEP 11 2008 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-121130- 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- 151 PM CDT THU SEP 11 2008 /1251 PM MDT THU SEP 11 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. THE BEST CHANCE OF HEAVY RAIN THROUGH TONIGHT WILL BE ACROSS THE GUADALUPE AND DAVIS MOUNTAINS...THE MARFA PLATEAU...BIG BEND...PRESIDIO VALLEY...TRANS PECOS AND THE SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR THESE AREAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL ALSO BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. RIVER FLOODING WILL PERSIST ALONG THE RIO GRANDE FROM PRESIDIO TO JOHNSON RANCH THROUGH TONIGHT. ANY ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LIKELY AGGRAVATE THE ONGOING FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL... WILL CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS FRIDAY. LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE. RIVER LEVELS ALONG THE RIO GRANDE WILL CONTINUE TO BE ELEVATED OR RISE THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK DUE TO THE COMBINATION OF WATER RELEASES FROM THE LUIS LEON RESERVOIR AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL EXPECTED RAINFALL. MANY LOCATIONS ALONG THE RIO GRANDE WILL REMAIN ABOVE FLOOD STAGE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... LOCAL INTERESTS ALONG THE RIO GRANDE RIVER SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST FLOOD WARNINGS AND FORECAST. 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
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 11, 5:54 PM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
554 PM CDT THU SEP 11 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0447 PM FLASH FLOOD HOBBS 32.73N 103.16W
09/11/2008 LEA NM LAW ENFORCEMENT
MULTIPLE STREETS BARACADED DUE TO HIGH WATER. NUMEROUS
STALLED VEHICLES.
&&
CGITROLocal storm report, Sep 11, 5:58 PM CDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
558 PM CDT THU SEP 11 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0519 PM FLASH FLOOD HOBBS 32.73N 103.16W
09/11/2008 LEA NM LAW ENFORCEMENT
LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORT SIGNIFICANT FLOODING IN AND
AROUND HOBBS WITH MULTIPLE STALLED VEHICLES AND A FEW
MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS
&&
CGITROSpecial weather statement, Sep 11, 7:02 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 702 PM CDT THU SEP 11 2008 TXZ081-120030- BIG BEND AREA- 702 PM CDT THU SEP 11 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT... THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES EAST OF PERSIMMON GAP AT 702 PM CDT...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. ALTHOUGH THIS STORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN BREWSTER COUNTY...THOSE IN ITS PATH SHOULD BE MINDFUL OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AS SATELLITE INDICATIONS SUGGEST HOURLY RAINFALL RATES EXCEEDING AN INCH PER HOUR. GUSTY WINDS... SMALL HAIL... VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE.
Local storm report, Sep 11, 10:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1027 PM CDT THU SEP 11 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1023 PM FLASH FLOOD 3 NW SEMINOLE 32.75N 102.69W
09/11/2008 GAINES TX EMERGENCY MNGR
NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FLOODING NORTH AND NORTHWEST OF
SEMINOLE...INCLUDING THE CITY OF SEMINOLE. MULTIPLE
STRANDED MOTORISTS ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 214 AND US HIGHWAY
385/62.
&&
CGITROThe office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 7:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Gaines | 3 hr |
| Sep 11, 8:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Presidio | 6 hr |
| Sep 11, 9:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Gaines | 6 hr |
| Sep 11, 10:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Presidio | 6 hr |
| Sep 11, 11:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews | 4 hr |
| Sep 12, 1:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson, Martin | 4 hr |
| Sep 12, 1:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 5 hr |
| Sep 12, 2:53 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
| Sep 12, 3:16 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Borden | 3 hr |
| Sep 12, 3:19 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Midland | 3 hr |
| Sep 12, 3:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos, Terrell | 5 hr |
| Sep 12, 5:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 3 hr |
| Sep 12, 9:39 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster, Presidio | 24 hr |
| Sep 12, 2:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Scurry | 3 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.