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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 16, 2016Crane County, Reagan County, Upton County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 16, 2016, 8:09 PM CDT for Crane County, Reagan County, Upton 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: Apr 16, 2016, 8:09 PM CDT (01:09 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 2016, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Crane County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Upton County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:09 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 83 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3416 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

564 
WGUS54 KMAF 170109
FFWMAF
TXC103-383-461-170415-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0001.160417T0109Z-160417T0415Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
809 PM CDT SAT APR 16 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND  HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN CRANE COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS...
  UPTON COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS...
  WESTERN REAGAN COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS...

* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT
    
* AT 808 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO
  BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  MCCAMEY...RANKIN...NORTH REAGAN FIRE STATION...BEST...KING MOUNTAIN...
  STILES...TEXON AND UPTON COUNTY AIRPORT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.

&&

LAT...LON 3110 10153 3108 10213 3109 10239 3109 10241
      3113 10243 3116 10242 3121 10244 3124 10249
      3126 10251 3127 10256 3130 10258 3164 10154

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 16, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Reagan, Upton	43 min
Apr 16, 7:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Scurry	46 min
Apr 16, 7:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Glasscock	44 min
Apr 16, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell, Scurry	57 min
Apr 16, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Reagan, Upton	38 min
Apr 16, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Reagan, Upton	51 min
Apr 16, 7:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MAF	Scurry	25 min
Apr 16, 7:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Reagan	33 min
Apr 16, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Mitchell	47 min
Apr 16, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Reagan, Upton	48 min
Apr 16, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Reagan, Upton	48 min
Apr 16, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell, Scurry	43 min
Apr 16, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	50 min
Apr 16, 8:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Mitchell, Scurry	4 hr
Apr 16, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	49 min
Apr 16, 10:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reagan	45 min
Apr 16, 10:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Glasscock, Reagan	3 hr
Apr 16, 10:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	53 min
Apr 16, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	49 min
Apr 16, 11:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	67 min
Apr 16, 11:14 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Brewster, Pecos, Terrell	3 hr

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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.