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Flash Flood Watch 10, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood watch at Jul 7, 2015, 3:46 AM CDT for 18 counties in Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 2015, 3:46 AM CDT (08:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2015, 2:57 PM CDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Flood severity
- None
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, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:47 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 16 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
- 135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1852 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 7, 12:57 AM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 12:57 AM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 6, 2:18 PM CDT, 13 hours 28 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 218 PM CDT MON JUL 6 2015 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-071930- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS- NORTHERN LEA COUNTY-CENTRAL LEA COUNTY-SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY-GAINES- DAWSON-BORDEN-SCURRY-ANDREWS-MARTIN-HOWARD-MITCHELL- VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR-REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS- LOVING-WINKLER-ECTOR-MIDLAND-GLASSCOCK-WARD-CRANE-UPTON-REAGAN- DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-PECOS-PRESIDIO VALLEY-MARFA PLATEAU- BIG BEND AREA-TERRELL-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- 218 PM CDT MON JUL 6 2015 /118 PM MDT MON JUL 6 2015/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT. HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT, ESPECIALLY OVER PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS AND THE EXTREME NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS COULD ALSO PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A GOOD CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS AS WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES COMBINE WITH A FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVING INTO THE REGION. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA, ESPECIALY THE EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN TUESDAY. IN ADDITION SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS COULD ALSO PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES... AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN MIDLAND CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT /LOWER CASE/ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/MIDLAND
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 2:48 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Borden, Dawson, Scurry | 4 hr |
| Jul 7, 3:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 4:05 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Howard, Mitchell | 4 hr |
| Jul 7, 6:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 9:19 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 62 hr |
| Jul 7, 9:19 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 71 hr |
| Jul 7, 9:19 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 22 hr |
| Jul 7, 9:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden, Howard, Mitchell, Scurry | 4 hr |
| Jul 7, 10:39 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Howard | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 1:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Glasscock, Reagan | 113 min |
| Jul 7, 2:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MAF | Borden, Glasscock, Howard, Mitchell, Reagan, Scurry | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 5:12 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Terrell | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 5:51 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 5:55 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Terrell | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 6:32 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Brewster | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Texas, 2015Flash Flood Watches in New Mexico, 2015Every flash flood watch in 2015
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.