Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2012
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 30, 2012, 6:52 PM CDT for Borden County, Scurry 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 30, 2012, 6:52 PM CDT (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2012, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Borden County, TX, Scurry County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:52 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 1590 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -246 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1149 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
312
WGUS54 KMAF 302352
FFWMAF
TXC033-415-010245-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0001.120430T2352Z-120501T0245Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
652 PM CDT MON APR 30 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN SCURRY COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...
NORTHEASTERN BORDEN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 945 PM CDT
* AT 643 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL NEAR ONE AND
ONE HALF INCH PER HOUR...MOVING EAST ACROSS NORTHEASTERN BORDEN
AND NORTHWESTERN SCURRY COUNTIES AT 15 MPH. RAPID RUNOFF FROM THE
HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LIKELY RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING...MAINLY OF
RURAL ROADS. FARM TO MARKET ROAD 1269 BETWEEN FLUVANNA AND US
HIGHWAY 180...AND ALONG FARM TO MARKET 2350 FROM FLUVANNA TO
3 MILES WEST OF FLUVANNA HAVE HAD THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL IN THE
LAST HOUR.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
FLUVANNA...ARAH AND DERMOTT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...LOW
WATER CROSSINGS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE
ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.
&&
LAT...LON 3264 10100 3267 10112 3279 10131 3297 10129
3297 10116 3297 10109 3296 10089 3269 10087
$$1 follow-up statement
774
WGUS74 KMAF 010030
FFSMAF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
730 PM CDT MON APR 30 2012
TXC033-415-010245-
/O.CON.KMAF.FF.W.0001.000000T0000Z-120501T0245Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
SCURRY-BORDEN-
730 PM CDT MON APR 30 2012
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN BORDEN AND NORTHWESTERN SCURRY COUNTIES...
AT 641 PM CDT...THE SNYDER FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED 2 FEET OF WATER
RUNNING OVER FARM TO MARKET 1269...FROM 6 MILES SOUTH OF FLUVANNA TO
THE INTERSECTION OF US HIGHWAY 180. THE FLOODING WAS STILL OCCURRING
ALONG FARM TO MARKER 1269...AND WILL LIKELY WORSEN AS THUNDERSTORMS
PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL NEAR TWO INCHES PER HOUR CONTINUE TO MOVE
EAST AT 15 MPH OVER WESTERN SCURRY COUNTY.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FLUVANNA AND
DERMOTT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW
LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT
TUESDAY MORNING FOR WEST TEXAS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO
REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN
TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3264 10100 3267 10112 3279 10131 3297 10129
3297 10116 3297 10109 3296 10089 3269 10087
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 5:20 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MAF | 8 hr | |
| Apr 30, 5:20 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MAF | 49 hr | |
| Apr 30, 1:19 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MAF | 32 hr | |
| Apr 30, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 60 min |
| Apr 30, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Jeff Davis, Pecos | 62 min |
| Apr 30, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 66 min |
| Apr 30, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos | 59 min |
| Apr 30, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 52 min |
| Apr 30, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 56 min |
| Apr 30, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 59 min |
| Apr 30, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 51 min |
| Apr 30, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 63 min |
| Apr 30, 5:59 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Brewster | 3 hr |
| Apr 30, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 39 min |
| Apr 30, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard, Martin | 58 min |
| Apr 30, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 65 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.