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Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

September 12, 2013Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this areal flood warning at Sep 12, 2013, 2:23 AM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 6 hr. 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 12, 2013, 2:23 AM MDT (08:23 UTC)
Expired
Sep 12, 2013, 8:15 AM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Eddy County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:26 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 206 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2013-09-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 65 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2013-09-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
65 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1412 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal 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 areal flood warning went out at Sep 12, 12:09 AM MDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 12:09 AM MDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 11, 12:20 PM MDT, 14 hours 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
120 PM CDT WED SEP 11 2013

NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075-
079>082-258-121830-
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-
120 PM CDT WED SEP 11 2013 /1220 PM MDT WED SEP 11 2013/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH
TONIGHT ACROSS ALL AREAS...ESPECIALLY AREAS WEST OF THE PECOS
RIVER. MOISTURE LEVELS WILL BE HIGH AND HEAVY RAIN WILL BE
POSSIBLE. SOME STORMS MAY MOVE ACROSS THE SAME AREAS THAT SAW
RAINFALL THE PAST FEW DAYS INCREASING THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING
OR FLASH FLOODING IN THE MOUNTAINS. STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE
ACCOMPANIED BY OCCASIONAL TO FREQUENT LIGHTNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN THURSDAY AFTERNOON
FOR MAINLY THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. ISOLATED ACTIVITY WILL BE
POSSIBLE ALONG AND WEST OF A SEMINOLE TO PECOS TO LAJITAS LINE.

THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED BUT LOCAL INTEREST SHOULD STAY
ABREAST TO THE LATEST FORECAST.

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 12, 6:20 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFCulberson6 hr
Sep 12, 12:13 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMAFCulberson3 hr
Sep 12, 2:21 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMAFCulberson6 hr
Sep 12, 2:33 PM MDTAreal Flood WarningMAFCulberson6 hr
Sep 11, 8:19 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy3 hr
Sep 11, 11:15 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy3 hr
Sep 12, 8:20 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy6 hr
Sep 12, 8:36 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy6 hr
Sep 12, 12:23 PM MDTRiver Flood WarningMAFEddy24 hr
Sep 12, 12:23 PM MDTRiver Flood WarningMAFEddy21 hr
Sep 12, 4:08 PM MDTRiver Flood WarningMAFEddy23 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2013Every areal flood warning in 2013

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.