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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood watch at Jun 14, 2013, 4:08 AM CDT for 14 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jun 14, 2013, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2013, 4:08 AM CDT (09:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 14, 2013, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2013, 4:11 AM CDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Borden County, TX, Crane County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Upton County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 292 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
- 1068 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 675 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at Jun 14, 12:56 AM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 12:56 AM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 8:27 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MAF | Presidio | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:04 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Presidio | 15 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:04 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Presidio | 15 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:04 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster, Presidio | 15 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:04 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 15 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:17 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Midland | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 12:02 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Brewster, Pecos, Terrell | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Jeff Davis | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 1:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Eddy | 38 min |
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.