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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 15, 2016Midland County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 2016, 9:09 PM CDT for Midland 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, 2016, 9:09 PM CDT (02:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2016, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Midland County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:09 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 21 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: 1918 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2408 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.4

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The text

As transmitted.

702 
WGUS54 KMAF 160209
FFWMAF
TXC329-160515-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0018.160616T0209Z-160616T0515Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
909 PM CDT WED JUN 15 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND  HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MIDLAND COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS...

* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT
    
* AT 908 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MIDLAND COUNTY. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO
  BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  MIDLAND...SPRABERRY...WARFIELD...COTTON FLAT...GREENWOOD...MIDLAND
  AIRPARK...MIDLAND INTERNATIONAL AIR AND SPACE PORT AND SKYWEST
  AIRPORT.


PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

&&

LAT...LON 3208 10179 3166 10179 3167 10227 3208 10227

$$

12

1 follow-up statement

275 
WGUS74 KMAF 160345
FFSMAF

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1045 PM CDT WED JUN 15 2016

TXC329-160515-
/O.CON.KMAF.FF.W.0018.000000T0000Z-160616T0515Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
MIDLAND TX-
1045 PM CDT WED JUN 15 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FOR
MIDLAND COUNTY...

AT 1041 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS THAT PRODUCED HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE
WARNED AREA HAVE MOVED EAST. REPORTS FROM ACROSS THE MIDLAND AREA
INDICATE AROUND AN INCH OF RAIN FELL IN ABOUT AN HOUR. NO REPORTS OF
FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED BUT THERE IS THOUGHT TO BE FLOODED LOW
WATER CROSSINGS IN THE CITY OF MIDLAND AND POSSIBLY IN RURAL PARTS
OF THE COUNTY.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
MIDLAND...SPRABERRY...WARFIELD...COTTON FLAT...GREENWOOD...MIDLAND
AIRPARK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

&&

LAT...LON 3208 10179 3166 10179 3167 10227 3208 10227

$$

49

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 7:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Gaines	24 min
Jun 15, 7:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	29 min
Jun 15, 7:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Ector	51 min
Jun 15, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Ward	46 min
Jun 15, 7:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Dawson	40 min
Jun 15, 7:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Crane, Ector	24 min
Jun 15, 7:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Midland	51 min
Jun 15, 7:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Martin	47 min
Jun 15, 8:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Upton	23 min
Jun 15, 8:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Howard	30 min
Jun 15, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	60 min
Jun 15, 8:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Pecos	3 hr
Jun 15, 8:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Midland	3 hr
Jun 15, 8:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Midland	45 min
Jun 15, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard, Martin	41 min
Jun 15, 8:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Glasscock	23 min
Jun 15, 8:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reagan	34 min
Jun 15, 9:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Brewster	25 min
Jun 15, 9:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Howard	3 hr
Jun 15, 9:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Mitchell	22 min
Jun 15, 9:39 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Glasscock	2 hr
Jun 15, 9:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Brewster	23 min

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.