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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 14, 2010Martin County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 14, 2010, 5:07 PM CDT for Martin County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 2010, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2010, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Martin County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 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 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 46 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1514 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 482 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 267 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 325 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 8.7

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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 May 14, 3:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 3:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
319 PM CDT FRI MAY 14 2010

.DISCUSSION...
SEVERE WEATHER ONGOING THROUGH THE EVENING. A TORNADO WATCH
STRECHES FROM SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ACROSS THE PERMIAN BASIN AND
SOUTH TO TERRELL COUNTY THROUGH 8 PM CDT /7 PM MDT/.

A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL BE RE-ENFORCED BY STORM
OUTFLOW THROUGH THE AFTERNOON...WITH LITTLE MOVEMENT EXPECTED.

AT 3 PM CDT...THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY WAS VISIBLE ON DOPPLER RADAR
FROM NEAR PECOS TO NEAR GARDEN CITY. MOST UNSTABLE CAPES IN
EXCESS OF 2000 SUGGESTED BY 18Z NAM THROUGH THE EVENING WITH BULK
SHEAR EXCEEDING 40 KNOTS COLLOCATED WITH AXIS OF MOST UNSTABLE
AIR FROM SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO TO THE RIO GRANDE.

APPEARS DEVELOPMENT MAY BE INCREASING AS SHORT WAVE APPARENT ON
WATER VAPOR INCREASES MID LEVEL LIFT...PROGGED TO CONTINUE
THROUGH THIS EVENING. AS A RESULT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPEAR
LIKELY THROUGH THIS EVENING...PARTICULARLY NEAR THE FRONTAL
BOUNDARY AND INTO THE WARM MOIST AIR EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS. THE
TORNADO THREAT WILL BE GREATEST NEAR THE EAST TO WEST BOUNDARY
ACROSS THE CENTRAL TO SOUTHERN PERMIAN BASIN. THIS THREAT SHOULD
PUSH SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE PECOS RIVER WITH THE BOUNDARY AS
CONVECTION REINFORCES THE COLD POOL OVER THE PERMIAN BASIN THROUGH
THE EVENING.

THOUGH THE BOUNDARY LAYER WILL BE COOLER ON SATURDAY...MOST
UNSTABLE CAPES WILL APPROACH 3000 ON SATURDAY WITH BULK SHEAR
VALUES EXCEEDING 50...ONCE AGAIN FROM SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ACROSS
THE PERMIAN BASIN AND SOUTH TO PECOS COUNTY. THE COOL BOUNDARY
LAYER SUGGESTS THAT THE PRIMARY THREAT SATURDAY WILL BE LARGE HAIL.

&&

.FIRE WEATHER...
AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL RANGE 5 TO 15 PERCENT FROM THE
MOUNTAIN AREAS WEST OF THE PECOS TO THE PRESIDIO VALLEY AND BIG
BEND THIS WEEKEND. THE DRIEST CONDITIONS WILL BE IN THE RIO GRANDE
VALLEY. OVERNIGHT RECOVERY WILL BE POOR TO FAIR. THOUGH DRY
CONDITIONS WILL BRING ELEVATED FIRE CONCERNS TO THAT AREA...
SOUTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN UNDER 20 MPH. ACROSS THE
REST OF THE AREA...AN EAST TO SOUTHEAST FLOW IS EXPECTED THROUGH
THE WEEKEND. MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL RANGE FROM 20
PERCENT JUST EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS TO BETTER THAN 60 PERCENT OVER
THE NORTHEAST PARTS OF THE AREA.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
BIG SPRING TX              62  77  64  82  /  60  40  40  30
CARLSBAD NM                59  79  57  83  /  50  10  10  20
DRYDEN TX                  66  83  68  88  /  50  30  20  20
FORT STOCKTON TX           64  80  62  85  /  50  20  20  20
GUADALUPE PASS TX          55  73  58  79  /  30  10  10  10
HOBBS NM                   59  75  58  81  /  50  30  20  20
MARFA TX                   46  78  57  83  /  10  10  10  10
MIDLAND INTL AIRPORT TX    63  79  63  81  /  50  30  30  20
ODESSA TX                  64  80  62  82  /  50  30  30  20
WINK TX                    66  82  62  89  /  50  20  20  20

&&

.MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NM...NONE.
TX...NONE.

&&

05

Hazardous weather outlook, May 14, 1:21 PM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
121 PM CDT FRI MAY 14 2010

NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075-
079>082-258-151830-
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-
121 PM CDT FRI MAY 14 2010 /1221 PM MDT FRI MAY 14 2010/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW
MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT...MANY SEVERE.
LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS.  A
TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT...OR 7 PM MDT...FOR ALL OF
SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...THE TRANS PECOS...PORTIONS OF THE WESTERN LOW
ROLLING PLAINS...AND PERMIAN BASIN.  HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED
FLASH FLOODING WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY ACROSS WEST
TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ALONG AND EAST OF A CARLSBAD...TO PECOS...TO
SANDERSON LINE.  LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT.  HEAVY
RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY ACROSS
WEST TEXAS ALONG AND EAST OF A LAMESA TO MIDLAND TO BIG LAKE LINE.
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS...STORM
SPOTTER GROUPS...AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES SHOULD ACTIVATE FOR
SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

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

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 14, 3:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
311 PM CDT FRI MAY 14 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0212 PM     HAIL             GREENWOOD               32.03N 101.90W
05/14/2010  E1.75 INCH       MIDLAND            TX   PUBLIC

            PUBLIC REPORTED PINGPONG AND GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL IN
            GREENWOOD.

&&

SCHULDT

Local storm report, May 14, 3:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
314 PM CDT FRI MAY 14 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0245 PM     FLASH FLOOD      MIDLAND                 32.00N 102.08W
05/14/2010                   MIDLAND            TX   PUBLIC

            PUBLIC REPORTED 6 TO 8 INCHES IN WATER ON MOST OF THE
            MAJOR ROADS IN MIDLAND.

&&

SCHULDT

Local storm report, May 14, 3:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
326 PM CDT FRI MAY 14 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0253 PM     FLASH FLOOD      MIDLAND                 32.00N 102.08W
05/14/2010                   MIDLAND            TX   PUBLIC

            CARS WERE REPORTED TO BE STRANDED ON GARFIELD IN MIDLAND.
            WATER WAS REPORTED TO BE 18 TO 20 INCHES DEEP ON GOLF
            COURSE ROAD IN MIDLAND.

&&

SCHULDT

Special weather statement, May 14, 3:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
340 PM CDT FRI MAY 14 2010

NMZ028-142115-
EDDY COUNTY PLAINS-
240 PM MDT FRI MAY 14 2010

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CARLSBAD AREA...

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

GUSTY WINDS... HAIL... HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE
POSSIBLE IN THE CARLSBAD AREA THROUGH 310 PM MDT.

&&

Local storm report, May 14, 3:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
352 PM CDT FRI MAY 14 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0348 PM     HAIL             MIDLAND                 32.00N 102.08W
05/14/2010  E1.00 INCH       MIDLAND            TX   PUBLIC

            PUBLIC REPORTED NICKEL TO QUARTER HAIL BY GARFIELD AND
            MIDKIFF IN MIDLAND.

&&

SCHULDT

Local storm report, May 14, 4:52 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
452 PM CDT FRI MAY 14 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0340 PM     FLASH FLOOD      3 SE MIDLAND            31.97N 102.04W
05/14/2010                   MIDLAND            TX   PUBLIC

            WATER 8 TO 10 INCHES DEEP WAS REPORTED OVER THE ROAD ON
            120E SE OF MIDLAND.

&&

SCHULDT

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	59 min
May 14, 12:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Winkler	68 min
May 14, 12:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Martin	63 min
May 14, 1:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Martin, Midland	56 min
May 14, 1:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Winkler	38 min
May 14, 1:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector	34 min
May 14, 1:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Mitchell	17 min
May 14, 1:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Midland	6 hr
May 14, 1:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Martin, Midland	36 min
May 14, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector	62 min
May 14, 1:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Midland	31 min
May 14, 1:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Winkler	29 min
May 14, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Midland	65 min
May 14, 2:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Ector, Midland	3 hr
May 14, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector, Ward, Winkler	55 min
May 14, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	60 min
May 14, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson, Howard, Martin	35 min
May 14, 2:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Martin, Midland	35 min
May 14, 2:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Midland	32 min
May 14, 3:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard	28 min
May 14, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Winkler	60 min
May 14, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Martin, Midland	54 min
May 14, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Mitchell	60 min
May 14, 3:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Howard	3 hr
May 14, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	63 min
May 14, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Crane, Ector, Martin, Midland, Upton	52 min
May 14, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard, Martin	30 min
May 14, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Ector, Midland, Pecos, Upton, Ward	64 min
May 14, 5:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	MAF	Crane, Ector, Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Midland and 5 more	35 hr
May 14, 5:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Upton, Ward	27 min
May 14, 5:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Crane, Midland, Upton	3 hr
May 14, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland, Reagan, Upton	58 min
May 14, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Upton	59 min
May 14, 6:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Mitchell	3 hr
May 14, 6:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Reagan	33 min
May 14, 6:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Reagan	31 min
May 14, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Reagan, Upton	61 min
May 14, 1:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	53 min
May 14, 2:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Lea	24 min
May 14, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	35 min
May 14, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	57 min
May 14, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	53 min
May 14, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Eddy	35 min
May 14, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy, Lea	55 min

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.