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Flash Flood Watch 9, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood watch at Sep 11, 2008, 1:20 PM CDT for 17 counties in Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 30 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 11, 2008, 1:20 PM CDT (18:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Flood severity
- None
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, Reagan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 22 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
- 388 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 11, 12:57 PM CDT, 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 11, 12:57 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 8:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 9 hr |
| 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, 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
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.