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Areal Flood Warning 4, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this areal flood warning at Aug 25, 2016, 6:56 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 2016, 6:56 PM CDT (23:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2016, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Pecos County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 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 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 1007 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 911 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Aug 25, 6:24 PM CDT, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 6:24 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 25, 2:06 PM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 206 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2016 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-261915- 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- 206 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2016 /106 PM MDT THU AUG 25 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WESTERN TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ESPECIALLY OVER AND NEAR THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WIND AND HEAVY RAINFALL... WHICH MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERN WITH THESE STORMS. .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
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 2:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 215 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2016 TXZ057-074-252000- VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR TX-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA TX- 215 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL CULBERSON COUNTY UNTIL 300 PM CDT... AT 215 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 23 MILES NORTH OF PLATEAU...OR 28 MILES NORTHEAST OF VAN HORN. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL CULBERSON COUNTY. LAT...LON 3161 10472 3159 10442 3117 10435 3117 10479 TIME...MOT...LOC 1915Z 013DEG 3KT 3140 10458 82
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 3:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
341 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2016
NMZ027-028-TXZ258-252130-
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY NM-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS NM-
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS TX-
341 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN EDDY AND
NORTHWESTERN CULBERSON COUNTIES UNTIL 430 PM CDT/330 PM MDT/...
AT 340 PM CDT/240 PM MDT/...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM NEAR MCKITTRICK CANYON...OR NEAR GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS
NATIONAL PARK...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH.
NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PINE SPRINGS...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK...CARLSBAD CAVERNS
NATIONAL PARK AND MCKITTRICK CANYON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.
&&
LAT...LON 3200 10492 3200 10485 3213 10485 3215 10455
3184 10459 3186 10492
TIME...MOT...LOC 2040Z 033DEG 9KT 3199 10481
84Special weather statement, Aug 25, 5:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
400 PM MDT THU AUG 25 2016
NMZ029-033-252245-
NORTHERN LEA COUNTY NM-CENTRAL LEA COUNTY NM-
400 PM MDT THU AUG 25 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL LEA COUNTY UNTIL 445 PM
MDT...
AT 400 PM MDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
LOVINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LOVINGTON...MALJAMAR AND BUCKEYE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.
&&
LAT...LON 3295 10314 3272 10349 3269 10379 3297 10379
3297 10376 3305 10376 3311 10329
TIME...MOT...LOC 2200Z 234DEG 22KT 3294 10334
70Special weather statement, Aug 25, 5:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 510 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2016 TXZ058-074-075-252300- REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS TX-PECOS TX- DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA TX- 510 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EAST CENTRAL JEFF DAVIS...WESTERN PECOS AND SOUTH CENTRAL REEVES COUNTIES UNTIL 600 PM CDT... AT 510 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF BALMORHEA LAKE...OR 21 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT DAVIS... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BALMORHEA LAKE AND SARAGOSA. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 211 AND 229. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE. && LAT...LON 3073 10370 3087 10383 3112 10354 3088 10331 TIME...MOT...LOC 2210Z 232DEG 15KT 3085 10370 84
Local storm report, Aug 25, 5:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
514 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0509 PM HAIL LOVINGTON 32.95N 103.35W
08/25/2016 E1.00 INCH LEA NM PUBLIC
&&
70Special weather statement, Aug 25, 5:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
540 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2016
TXZ067-068-075-252330-
WARD TX-CRANE TX-PECOS TX-
540 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WEST CENTRAL CRANE...NORTH
CENTRAL PECOS AND SOUTHEASTERN WARD COUNTIES UNTIL 630 PM CDT...
AT 539 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR
IMPERIAL RESERVOIR...OR 9 MILES SOUTH OF GRANDFALLS...MOVING NORTH
AT 10 MPH.
DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GRANDFALLS...IMPERIAL RESERVOIR...IMPERIAL AND ROYALTY.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 20 NEAR MILE MARKER 72.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.
&&
LAT...LON 3103 10282 3115 10306 3133 10305 3137 10301
3138 10305 3156 10304 3144 10260
TIME...MOT...LOC 2239Z 199DEG 10KT 3121 10285
84The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 10:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Ector | 113 min |
| Aug 25, 2:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Culberson | 45 min |
| Aug 25, 2:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Borden, Dawson, Gaines | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 2:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 2:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Culberson, Jeff Davis | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 3:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 49 min | |
| Aug 25, 3:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Culberson | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 5:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Reeves | 50 min |
| Aug 25, 5:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Crane | 50 min |
| Aug 25, 6:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos, Ward | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 6:21 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Gaines | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 3:19 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 5:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 45 min |
| Aug 25, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 37 min |
| Aug 25, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 31 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.