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Flash Flood Watch 12, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood watch at Oct 4, 2015, 2:48 AM CDT for Loving County, Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It took effect at Oct 4, 2015, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 20 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 4, 2015, 2:48 AM CDT (07:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 4, 2015, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 5, 2015, 3:01 AM CDT
- In force
- 20 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Loving County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:49 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2204 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 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 Oct 4, 12:28 AM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 4, 12:28 AM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 3, 1:44 PM CDT, 13 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 144 PM CDT SAT OCT 3 2015 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-041845- 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- 144 PM CDT SAT OCT 3 2015 /1244 PM MDT SAT OCT 3 2015/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT, ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS, SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS, AND PERHAPS THE UPPER TRANS PECOS. MORE ISOLATED STORMS ARE EXPECTED FURTHER EAST. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS, LARGE HAIL HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY STORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT, ALONG WITH LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. THE LOCATIONS MOST LIKELY TO SEE THESE HEAVIER RAINS WILL BE THE SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS AND THE HIGH TERRAIN OF WEST TEXAS. .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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 8:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Loving | 54 min |
| Oct 3, 8:26 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Culberson | 3 hr |
| Oct 4, 12:25 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Loving | 4 hr |
| Oct 3, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 43 min |
| Oct 3, 7:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Oct 3, 8:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Eddy | 55 min |
| Oct 4, 1:04 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Oct 4, 3:26 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Lea | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in New Mexico, 2015Flash Flood Watches in Texas, 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.