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Flash Flood Warning 82, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 19, 2014, 5:18 PM CDT for Culberson 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 19, 2014, 5:18 PM CDT (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 2014, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Culberson County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 208 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 423 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 556 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
093
WGUS54 KMAF 192218
FFWMAF
TXC109-200115-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0082.140919T2218Z-140920T0115Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
518 PM CDT FRI SEP 19 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN CULBERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 815 PM CDT
* AT 510 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS
OPEN COUNTRY OF THE NORTHEASTERN TWO THIRDS OF CULBERSON
COUNTY. ADDITIONAL LOCALIZED RAINFALL TOTAL OF 1 TO 2 INCHES
PER HOUR CAN BE EXPECTED EARLY THIS EVENING WHICH WILL LIKELY
RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING.
* THE STORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... LOW WATER CROSSINGS...
NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY.
DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.
&&
LAT...LON 3155 10448 3188 10448 3199 10447 3200 10403
3126 10410 3122 10447
$$1 follow-up statement
405
WGUS74 KMAF 200108
FFSMAF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
808 PM CDT FRI SEP 19 2014
TXC109-200118-
/O.EXP.KMAF.FF.W.0082.000000T0000Z-140920T0115Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
CULBERSON-
808 PM CDT FRI SEP 19 2014
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 815 PM CDT FOR NORTHEASTERN
CULBERSON COUNTY...
AT 808 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THE STORMS THAT PROMPTED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAD EXITED THE WARNED
AREA. THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
ALTHOUGH THE THREAT OF SIGNIFICANT FLOODING HAS PASSED...PONDING OF
WATER AND AREAS OF HIGH WATER IN LOW WATER CROSSINGS WILL LIKELY
CONTINUE ON SOME ROADWAYS. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN CAUTIOUS AND
BE PREPARED TO SLOW DOWN IF WATER IS ENCOUNTERED TO PREVENT
HYDROPLANING AND LOSS OF VEHICLE CONTROL.
FOR ROAD CONDITIONS IN TEXAS...PLEASE CALL THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION AT 1 800 452 9292...OR VISIT
HTTP://WWW.DOT.STATE.TX.US.
&&
LAT...LON 3155 10448 3188 10448 3199 10447 3200 10403
3126 10410 3122 10447
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 7:09 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Upton | 4 hr |
| Sep 18, 7:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Reagan | 29 min |
| Sep 18, 7:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ward | 3 hr |
| Sep 18, 7:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Ward | 27 min |
| Sep 18, 8:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Reagan | 5 hr |
| Sep 18, 8:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 36 min | |
| Sep 18, 10:10 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Culberson | 3 hr |
| Sep 18, 10:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 4 hr |
| Sep 18, 11:24 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Reeves | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 12:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reeves | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 3:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Culberson | 4 hr |
| Sep 19, 4:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Loving, Reeves | 4 hr |
| Sep 19, 7:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ward, Winkler | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 7:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Culberson | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 8:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Crane, Ector, Pecos | 6 hr |
| Sep 19, 8:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Loving, Reeves | 4 hr |
| Sep 19, 9:06 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Loving, Reeves | 15 hr |
| Sep 19, 10:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ward, Winkler | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 10:48 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MAF | Culberson | 6 hr |
| Sep 19, 10:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Winkler | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 11:29 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Midland, Upton | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 12:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MAF | Loving, Reeves | 6 hr |
| Sep 19, 1:26 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MAF | Ward, Winkler | 6 hr |
| Sep 19, 2:18 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MAF | Crane, Ector | 6 hr |
| Sep 19, 6:59 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Brewster, Pecos | 5 hr |
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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.