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Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood watch at Aug 15, 2008, 4:09 AM CDT for 19 counties in Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It took effect at Aug 15, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 69 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 15, 2008, 4:09 AM CDT (09:09 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 15, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2008, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 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 09:08 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, 9.2 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3010 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 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 Aug 15, 3:47 AM CDT, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 3:47 AM CDT, 22 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 56 min |
| Aug 15, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 62 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Texas, 2008Flash Flood Watches in New Mexico, 2008Every flash flood watch in 2008
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.