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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 15, 2015Reagan County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 2015, 5:32 AM CDT for Reagan 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: Jun 15, 2015, 5:32 AM CDT (10:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2015, 8:30 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Reagan County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:32 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 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 651 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2097 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

477 
WGUS54 KMAF 151032
FFWMAF
TXC383-151330-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0039.150615T1032Z-150615T1330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
532 AM CDT MON JUN 15 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN REAGAN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...

* UNTIL 830 AM CDT

* AT 525 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
  RAIN CONTINUING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL
  AGGRAVATE ONGOING FLOODING ACROSS SOUTHERN REAGAN COUNTY INCLUDING
  THE CITY OF BIG LAKE. 

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO TEXON...
  STILES...BIG LAKE AND BEST.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...LOW
WATER CROSSINGS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE
ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.

&&

LAT...LON 3108 10128 3107 10143 3111 10176 3144 10175
      3145 10126 3108 10127

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 7:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Brewster	24 min
Jun 14, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ward, Winkler	47 min
Jun 14, 7:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Winkler	36 min
Jun 14, 7:43 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Gaines	2 hr
Jun 14, 7:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos, Ward, Winkler	30 min
Jun 14, 7:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Gaines	36 min
Jun 14, 8:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Pecos	23 min
Jun 14, 8:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Gaines	30 min
Jun 14, 8:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Gaines	2 hr
Jun 14, 8:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Andrews, Brewster, Crane, Ector, Pecos	54 min
Jun 14, 9:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Ector	116 min
Jun 14, 9:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Andrews	2 hr
Jun 14, 9:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Midland	116 min
Jun 15, 12:45 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Reagan, Terrell, Upton	3 hr
Jun 15, 1:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Reagan	4 hr

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.