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Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 29, 2012, 2:59 AM CDT for Pecos 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
- Sep 29, 2012, 2:59 AM CDT (07:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 2012, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Pecos County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:59 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 120 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.
974
WGUS54 KMAF 290759
FFWMAF
TXC371-291100-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0042.120929T0759Z-120929T1100Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
259 AM CDT SAT SEP 29 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 600 AM CDT
* AT 253 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUE
TO DETECT SHOWERS IN THE AREA. ALTHOUGH SHOWERS ARE DECREASING AND
THE LARGER THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN IS DECREASING THERE ARE STILL
FLOODED ROADWAYS IN THE COUNTY AND THE SHERIFFS REPORTS FLOODING
OF FARM TO MARKET ROAD 1776 AND THAT IT IS CLOSED.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO IMPERIAL
AND COYANOSA AND AREAS ALONG AND NEAR FARM TO MARKET 1776.
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 3135 10300 3124 10279 3132 10266 3123 10258
3094 10286 3054 10324 3077 10356
$$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, 10:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos, Reeves, Ward, Winkler | 3 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, 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.