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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 5, 2015, 12:14 AM CDT for Borden County, Texas. It was in force for 6 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
- May 5, 2015, 12:14 AM CDT (05:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2015, 6:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Borden County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:17 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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 544 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1484 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
843 WGUS54 KMAF 050514 FFWMAF TXC033-051115- /O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0013.150505T0514Z-150505T1115Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1214 AM CDT TUE MAY 5 2015 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BORDEN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 615 AM CDT * AT 1209 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A THUNDERSTORM NEAR GAIL PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN THAT WILL RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... GAIL... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. && LAT...LON 3294 10169 3296 10120 3255 10121 3256 10168 $$
1 follow-up statement
446 WGUS74 KMAF 050821 FFSMAF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 321 AM CDT TUE MAY 5 2015 TXC033-051115- /O.CON.KMAF.FF.W.0013.000000T0000Z-150505T1115Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BORDEN- 321 AM CDT TUE MAY 5 2015 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 AM CDT FOR BORDEN COUNTY... AT 315 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT RAIN PRODUCING POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING ACROSS BORDEN COUNTY. RAIN CONTINUES ACROSS EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. && LAT...LON 3294 10169 3296 10120 3255 10121 3256 10168 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 7:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Dawson | 35 min |
| May 4, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 31 min |
| May 4, 7:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Reeves | 33 min |
| May 4, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 64 min |
| May 4, 7:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Dawson | 2 hr |
| May 4, 8:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos, Reeves | 4 hr |
| May 4, 8:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson | 3 hr |
| May 4, 8:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Reeves | 33 min |
| May 4, 8:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Borden | 30 min |
| May 4, 8:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Gaines | 3 hr |
| May 4, 8:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Borden | 3 hr |
| May 4, 8:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Loving, Reeves, Ward, Winkler | 3 hr |
| May 4, 8:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Loving | 24 min |
| May 4, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Reeves | 65 min |
| May 4, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 62 min |
| May 4, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving, Reeves, Ward, Winkler | 41 min |
| May 4, 9:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden | 3 hr |
| May 4, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 44 min |
| May 4, 9:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Dawson | 37 min |
| May 4, 9:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reeves, Ward | 3 hr |
| May 4, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 62 min |
| May 4, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos, Ward | 60 min |
| May 4, 10:12 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 3 hr |
| May 4, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson, Martin | 63 min |
| May 4, 10:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Pecos | 4 hr |
| May 4, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Ward | 45 min |
| May 4, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 51 min |
| May 4, 10:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Dawson | 3 hr |
| May 4, 11:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Crane | 27 min |
| May 4, 11:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson, Gaines | 6 hr |
| May 4, 11:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Borden | 37 min |
| May 4, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 46 min |
| May 5, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Ector, Midland, Upton | 45 min |
| May 5, 1:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 44 min |
| May 5, 1:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Scurry | 44 min |
| May 5, 1:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 3 hr |
| May 5, 3:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 3 hr |
| May 5, 4:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Gaines | 4 hr |
| May 5, 4:33 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 3 hr |
| May 5, 5:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Gaines | 4 hr |
| May 5, 5:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Loving | 41 min |
| May 5, 6:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson, Gaines | 4 hr |
| May 5, 6:29 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Gaines, Winkler | 3 hr |
| May 5, 8:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 116 min |
| May 5, 2:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Howard | 35 min |
| May 5, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Borden, Howard | 32 min |
| May 5, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Borden, Howard | 34 min |
| May 5, 3:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Scurry | 35 min |
| May 5, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 43 min |
| May 5, 4:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Mitchell | 25 min |
| May 5, 4:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Mitchell | 23 min |
| May 5, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 46 min |
| May 5, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 60 min |
| May 5, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 40 min |
| May 5, 5:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Scurry | 28 min |
| May 5, 5:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Mitchell | 43 min |
| May 5, 6:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Terrell | 29 min |
| May 5, 6:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Mitchell | 36 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.