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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 2009, 7:42 AM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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
- Jun 20, 2009, 7:42 AM CDT (12:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2009, 9:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Ector County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 326 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
- 503 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMAF 201242 FFWMAF TXC135-201445- /O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0039.090620T1242Z-090620T1445Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 742 AM CDT SAT JUN 20 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL ECTOR COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 945 AM CDT * AT 738 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR WEST ODESSA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... ODESSA... GARDENDALE... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED WHICH COULD INCREASE THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS... URBAN AREAS... HIGHWAYS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. && LAT...LON 3206 10268 3206 10231 3168 10236 3172 10267 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:29 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Crane, Pecos, Ward | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 10:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Brewster, Presidio | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 12:14 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 8 hr |
| Jun 20, 1:35 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Presidio | 12 hr |
| Jun 20, 4:14 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Ector | 2 hr |
| Jun 20, 4:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 4:44 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 2 hr |
| Jun 20, 4:56 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Brewster, Crane, Pecos, Terrell, Upton | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 6:16 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Midland | 119 min |
| Jun 20, 8:15 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Midland | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 8:31 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Howard | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 10:04 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 10:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reagan | 3 hr |
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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.