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Flash Flood Warning 61, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

September 23, 2010Pecos County, Reeves County, Ward County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 23, 2010, 6:14 PM CDT for Pecos County, Reeves County, Ward County, Texas. It was in force for 104 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 23, 2010, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired: Sep 23, 2010, 7:58 PM CDT
In force: 104 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Pecos County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Ward County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 69 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 601 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Sep 23, 2:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 23, 2:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 23, 2:05 PM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
205 PM CDT THU SEP 23 2010

NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075-
079>082-258-241915-
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-
205 PM CDT THU SEP 23 2010 /105 PM MDT THU SEP 23 2010/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS
PORTIONS OF THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS...VAN HORN HIGHWAY 54
CORRIDOR...TRANS PECOS...THE PRESIDIO RIVER VALLEY...AND BIG BEND
REGION. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND
CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HIGH RAINFALL RATES CAN BE
EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN
EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...AND HAS BEEN EXTENDED SOUTHWARD INTO
THE BIG BEND REGION.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE FRIDAY THROUGH
SUNDAY MORNING ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS. THE
MAIN THREAT WILL BE HEAVY RAINFALL...ALTHOUGH A FEW STORMS COULD
BECOME STRONG PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. LOCALIZED
FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE THROUGH SUNDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

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

Special weather statement, Sep 23, 5:17 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
517 PM CDT THU SEP 23 2010

TXZ058-232245-
REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS-
517 PM CDT THU SEP 23 2010

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NICKEL SIZED HAIL AND 40 TO 55
MPH WINDS AFFECTING CENTRAL REEVES COUNTY UNTIL 545 PM CDT...

A THUNDERSTORM WITH HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF TOYAH IN CENTRAL REEVES COUNTY AT 516 PM CDT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
30 MPH.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

GUSTY WINDS... HAIL... HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE
POSSIBLE.

&&

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 22, 8:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Culberson	3 hr
Sep 23, 3:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 13 more	63 hr
Sep 23, 3:12 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Jeff Davis	3 hr
Sep 23, 5:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Reeves	3 hr
Sep 23, 6:40 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Brewster, Pecos	4 hr
Sep 22, 7:47 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Eddy	118 min
Sep 22, 8:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Eddy	3 hr
Sep 22, 10:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Eddy, Lea	3 hr
Sep 22, 11:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Eddy	3 hr
Sep 23, 12:05 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Lea	3 hr
Sep 23, 2:42 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Eddy, Lea	3 hr
Sep 23, 6:37 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Eddy	113 min
Sep 23, 7:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Eddy	3 hr
Sep 23, 10:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Eddy	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.