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Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 28, 2012, 10:24 PM CDT for 5 counties in 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
- Sep 28, 2012, 10:24 PM CDT (03:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 2012, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Crane County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:23 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, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 496 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
089
WGUS54 KMAF 290324
FFWMAF
TXC103-371-389-475-495-290615-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0038.120929T0324Z-120929T0615Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1024 PM CDT FRI SEP 28 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CRANE COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...
NORTH CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...
WARD COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...
SOUTHEASTERN WINKLER COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...
EAST CENTRAL REEVES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 115 AM CDT
* AT 1017 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED
MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN FROM NEAR PECOS TO IMPERIAL MOVING NORTH
AT 20 MPH. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE HALF TO ONE AND ONE HALF
INCHES PER HOUR WILL RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WINK...
WICKETT...MONAHANS SANDHILLS STATE PARK...PYOTE AND MONAHANS.
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.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 3163 10339 3163 10332 3168 10332 3205 10281
3167 10281 3164 10281 3164 10274 3164 10233
3129 10233 3096 10277 3104 10334
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 7:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Pecos, Reeves, Ward | 3 hr |
| Sep 28, 8:59 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Ector, Midland | 3 hr |
| Sep 28, 9:26 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Presidio | 13 hr |
| Sep 28, 9:26 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster, Presidio | 13 hr |
| Sep 28, 9:26 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 13 hr |
| Sep 28, 9:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 3 hr |
| Sep 28, 10:22 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Presidio | 12 hr |
| Sep 28, 11:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Sep 29, 12:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Crane, Ector, Midland, Reeves, Ward, Winkler | 4 hr |
| Sep 29, 1:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 4 hr |
| Sep 29, 2:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Sep 29, 4:24 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Crane, Ector, Glasscock, Midland | 4 hr |
| Sep 29, 5:35 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Howard, Mitchell | 4 hr |
| Sep 29, 5:59 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Pecos | 4 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.