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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 14, 2012, 8:32 PM CDT for Dawson 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
- May 14, 2012, 8:32 PM CDT (01:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2012, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Dawson County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:32 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 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
733
WGUS54 KMAF 150132
FFWMAF
TXC115-150430-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0015.120515T0132Z-120515T0430Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
832 PM CDT MON MAY 14 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
DAWSON COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT
* AT 822 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED
FLASH FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM
HANCOCK TO LAMESA...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES
NORTHEAST OF LAMESA TO LAMESA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING
LOCATIONS...
KEY...
LAMESA...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
STREAMS AND DRAINAGES AFFECTED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...
TOBACCO CREEK...WET TOBACCO CREEK...GOLD CREEK...SAND CREEK AND
SULPHUR SPRINGS DRAW.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND.
MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE... AND MANY OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS
DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. IT IS NEVER SAFE TO DRIVE ON FLOODED
ROADS. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER TO QUICKLY
CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN.
&&
LAT...LON 3292 10170 3277 10170 3253 10198 3270 10220
3296 10183
$$1 follow-up statement
268
WGUS74 KMAF 150306
FFSMAF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1006 PM CDT MON MAY 14 2012
TXC115-150430-
/O.CON.KMAF.FF.W.0015.000000T0000Z-120515T0430Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
DAWSON-
1006 PM CDT MON MAY 14 2012
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1130 PM CDT FOR
DAWSON COUNTY...
AT 955 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT HEAVY RAINFALL PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING OVER WESTERN DAWSON
COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 5 MPH. RADAR
ESTIMATES THAT UP TO 4 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE LAST 3
HOURS JUST SOUTHWEST OF LAMESA. SOME OTHER LOCATIONS RECIEVING
HEAVY RAINFALL WERE SULPHUR SPRINGS DRAW...GOLD CREEK...AND WET
TOBACCO CREEK.
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING
LOCATIONS...LAMESA...HANCOCK...FRIENDSHIP...ARVANA...TENMILE AND KEY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
STREAMS AND DRAINAGES AFFECTED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...
TOBACCO CREEK...WET TOBACCO CREEK...GOLD CREEK...SAND CREEK AND
SULPHUR SPRINGS DRAW.
MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE... AND MANY OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS
DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. IT IS NEVER SAFE TO DRIVE ON FLOODED
ROADS. IT TAKES ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER TO QUICKLY
CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND.
TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
MIDLAND.
&&
LAT...LON 3292 10170 3277 10170 3253 10198 3270 10220
3296 10183
$$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.