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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 6, 2014, 6:35 PM CDT for Pecos 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
- Sep 6, 2014, 6:35 PM CDT (23:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2014, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Pecos County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:35 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 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 512 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
653
WGUS54 KMAF 062335
FFWMAF
TXC371-070230-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0039.140906T2335Z-140907T0230Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
635 PM CDT SAT SEP 6 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 930 PM CDT
* AT 631 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED
STORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CAPABLE OF FLASH FLOODING 6 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF FORT STOCKTON AND ALONG HIGHWAY 285 WESTWARD. THE
STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH.
* THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING
LOCATIONS...
FORT STOCKTON...
RURAL AREAS ALONG AND NEAR HIGHWAYS 285 AND 385
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED WHICH COULD INCREASE THE POTENTIAL
FOR FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA.
MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE... AND MANY OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS
DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. IT IS NEVER SAFE TO DRIVE ON FLOODED
ROADS. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER TO QUICKLY
CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN.
&&
LAT...LON 3077 10357 3100 10335 3093 10289 3087 10274
3036 10243 3022 10278 3041 10307
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 9:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Gaines | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 6:55 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Presidio | 24 hr |
| Sep 6, 8:11 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Presidio | 4 days |
| Sep 6, 9:10 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Presidio | 24 hr |
| Sep 6, 9:10 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Presidio | 24 hr |
| Sep 6, 9:17 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Ward, Winkler | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 9:33 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MAF | Presidio | 5 hr |
| Sep 6, 12:23 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Pecos, Reeves, Ward, Winkler | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 4:46 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Pecos | 119 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.