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Flash Flood Watch 7, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood watch at Oct 14, 2013, 4:34 AM CDT for Ector County, Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 14, 2013, 4:34 AM CDT (09:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 14, 2013, 10:12 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Ector County, TX, Midland County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:34 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 12 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 773 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 14, 4:00 AM CDT, 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 14, 4:00 AM CDT, 34 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 7:19 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Glasscock, Reagan | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 9:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Reagan | 6 hr |
| Oct 13, 9:53 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 3 hr |
| Oct 14, 1:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MAF | Crane, Pecos, Reagan, Terrell, Upton | 39 hr |
| Oct 14, 6:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 32 min | |
| Oct 14, 6:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Brewster | 34 min |
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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.