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Flash Flood Watch 8, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood watch at Sep 10, 2008, 8:06 PM CDT for Pecos County, Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 10, 2008, 8:06 PM CDT (01:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2008, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 9 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 01:07 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, 1.1 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
- 561 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
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, 6:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 10, 6:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 10, 2:23 PM CDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 223 PM CDT WED SEP 10 2008 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-111130- 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- 223 PM CDT WED SEP 10 2008 /123 PM MDT WED SEP 10 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 ACROSS WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO TONIGHT. THE BEST CHANCE OF HEAVY RAIN THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING WILL BE ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST PERMIAN BASIN...THE LOWER TRANS PECOS AND BIG BEND WHERE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT. BY LATER TONIGHT THE HEAVIEST RAINS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS TO THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR IN CULBERSON COUNTY. 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...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL... WILL CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS THROUGH 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 EXPECTED RAINFALL. MANY LOCATIONS ALONG THE RIO GRANDE WILL REMAIN ABOVE FLOOD STAGE. THE REMAINS OF HURRICANE IKE COULD BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF RAINFALL TO THE EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN THIS WEEKEND. .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 10, 2:31 PM CDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
231 PM CDT WED SEP 10 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0220 PM FLASH FLOOD S MCCAMEY 31.13N 102.22W
09/10/2008 UPTON TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
FM 1901 AND HWY 305 HAS BEEN CLOSED SOUTH OF MCCAMEY AND
INTO PECOS COUNTY, WATER IS RUNNING OVER THE ROAD MAKING
IT IMPASSABLE
&&
JGUDMESTLocal storm report, Sep 10, 4:32 PM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
432 PM CDT WED SEP 10 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0423 PM FLASH FLOOD IRAAN 30.91N 101.90W
09/10/2008 PECOS TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
SEVERAL ROADS ARE CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING IN IRAAN
0206 PM FLASH FLOOD 4 E BAKERSFIELD 30.89N 102.23W
09/10/2008 PECOS TX OTHER FEDERAL
FM 2886 JUST SOUTH OF I-10 IS CLOSED, TXDOT CREWS REPORT
ABOUT 2 AND A HALF FEET OF WATER AT ONE LOCATION
&&
JGUDMESTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 8:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos, Terrell | 78 min |
| Sep 10, 9:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster, Presidio | 12 hr |
| Sep 10, 10:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 5 hr |
| Sep 11, 12:48 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Crockett, Pecos, Terrell | 34 hr |
| Sep 11, 12:48 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Crockett, Terrell | 8 hr |
| Sep 11, 2:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 5 hr |
| Sep 11, 9:54 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster, Presidio | 24 hr |
| Sep 11, 1:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 11 more | 30 hr |
| Sep 11, 3:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Gaines | 113 min |
| Sep 11, 4:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Gaines | 3 hr |
| Sep 11, 6:12 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Crane, Pecos, Reeves, Ward | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.