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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 23, 201419 counties in Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood watch at May 23, 2014, 5:29 AM CDT for 19 counties in Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It took effect at May 23, 2014, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2014, 5:29 AM CDT (10:29 UTC)
In effect from: May 23, 2014, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired: May 26, 2014, 10:36 PM CDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Flood severity: None

All 21 counties

Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Crane County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Loving 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, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:30 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 (KDLF), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 321 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 932 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1846 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 May 23, 5:16 AM CDT, 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 5:16 AM CDT, 13 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 7:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF		31 min
May 22, 7:43 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Brewster, Jeff Davis, Pecos, Reeves	3 hr
May 22, 8:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF		39 min
May 23, 12:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Jeff Davis	30 min
May 23, 12:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Jeff Davis	3 hr
May 23, 2:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Scurry	3 hr
May 23, 2:14 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Borden, Howard	3 hr
May 23, 2:57 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Mitchell, Scurry	3 hr
May 23, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis	59 min
May 23, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis	65 min
May 23, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	55 min
May 23, 4:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Scurry	3 hr
May 23, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Jeff Davis, Pecos, Reeves	59 min
May 23, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson	58 min
May 23, 5:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Jeff Davis	3 hr
May 23, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson	61 min
May 23, 5:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Ector	3 hr
May 23, 5:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Brewster, Jeff Davis	3 hr
May 23, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	57 min
May 23, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson	53 min
May 23, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	57 min
May 23, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Culberson	45 min
May 23, 2:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Lea	29 min
May 23, 4:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Lea	65 min
May 23, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	67 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.