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Flash Flood Watch 6, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood watch at Oct 13, 2013, 4:55 AM CDT for 16 counties in Texas. It took effect at Oct 13, 2013, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 27 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 13, 2013, 4:55 AM CDT (09:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 13, 2013, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 14, 2013, 10:12 AM CDT
- In force
- 27 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Crane County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines 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), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:55 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
Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 304 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
- 1902 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1352 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
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 Oct 13, 4:15 AM CDT, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 4:15 AM CDT, 40 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 13, 3:14 AM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 314 AM CDT SUN OCT 13 2013 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-132000- 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- 314 AM CDT SUN OCT 13 2013 /214 AM MDT SUN OCT 13 2013/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AREAS OF RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AND MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO TODAY WITH AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON...CONTINUING THROUGH TONIGHT. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM CDT FOR THE BIG BEND AREA...STOCKTON PLATEAU...LOWER TRANS PECOS AND THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN...GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM LAMESA TO LAJITAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN WILL BEGIN TO MOVE OUT OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS MONDAY MORNING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 1 PM CDT MONDAY GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM LAMESA TO LAJITAS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 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 05
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 3:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard | 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 |
| Oct 13, 8:37 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Lea | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 11:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 12:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 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.