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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 13, 2013Howard County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 13, 2013, 3:04 PM CDT for Howard 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: Oct 13, 2013, 3:04 PM CDT (20:04 UTC)
Expired: Oct 13, 2013, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Howard County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 81 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 462 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -134 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 889 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

117 
WGUS54 KMAF 132004
FFWMAF
TXC227-132300-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0039.131013T2004Z-131013T2300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
304 PM CDT SUN OCT 13 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HOWARD COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 251 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED   
  VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTHEAST THROUGH THE 
  COUNTY AT AROUND 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SAND
  SPRINGS...FAIRVIEW IN MITCHELL COUNTY...VINCENT...VEALMOOR...
  LUTHER...KNOTT...FAIRVIEW AND COAHOMA.

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.

FOR ROAD CONDITIONS IN TEXAS...PLEASE CALL THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION AT 1 800 452 9292...OR VISIT
HTTP://WWW.DOT.STATE.TX.US.

&&

LAT...LON 3252 10168 3252 10117 3209 10119 3209 10169

$$

1 follow-up statement

507 
WGUS74 KMAF 132117
FFSMAF

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
417 PM CDT SUN OCT 13 2013

TXC227-132300-
/O.CON.KMAF.FF.W.0039.000000T0000Z-131013T2300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
HOWARD-
417 PM CDT SUN OCT 13 2013

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR
HOWARD COUNTY...

AT 408 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A NUMEROUS 
ROAD CLOSURES THROUGHOUT HOWARD COUNTY DUE HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING.  
STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 
MPH.  THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED SOUTH OF I-20.

THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING 
LOCATIONS...BIG SPRING MCMAHON-WRINKLE AIRPARK...BIG 
SPRING...MIDWAY...MIDWAY IN HOWARD COUNTY AND SAND SPRINGS.

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.

FOR ROAD CONDITIONS IN TEXAS...PLEASE CALL THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION AT 1 800 452 9292...OR VISIT
HTTP://WWW.DOT.STATE.TX.US.

&&

LAT...LON 3252 10168 3252 10117 3209 10119 3209 10169

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 13, 4:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 10 more	29 hr
Oct 13, 7:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Loving	54 min
Oct 13, 10:14 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	3 hr
Oct 13, 11:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Dawson, Gaines, Martin	60 min
Oct 13, 12:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Borden, Dawson	3 hr
Oct 13, 1:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Gaines	3 hr
Oct 13, 1:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Martin	3 hr
Oct 13, 1:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Ector, Midland	3 hr
Oct 13, 1:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Andrews	3 hr
Oct 13, 1:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Ector, Midland	3 hr
Oct 13, 2:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Gaines	3 hr
Oct 13, 3:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Midland	35 min
Oct 13, 3:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Ector, Midland	3 hr
Oct 13, 4:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Crane, Ward	3 hr
Oct 13, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Ector, Midland, Upton	35 min
Oct 13, 4:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Dawson	3 hr
Oct 13, 4:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Glasscock	3 hr
Oct 13, 5:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Glasscock	33 min
Oct 13, 6:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Howard	3 hr
Oct 13, 6:05 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Crane, Upton	3 hr
Oct 13, 6:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Ector, Midland	3 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.