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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 16, 2016Mitchell County, Scurry County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 16, 2016, 8:57 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Scurry County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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, 8:57 PM CDT (01:57 UTC)
Expired: Apr 17, 2016, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Mitchell County, TX, Scurry County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:00 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 123 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.

448 
WGUS54 KMAF 170157
FFWMAF
TXC335-415-170600-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0002.160417T0157Z-160417T0600Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND  HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SCURRY COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS...
  MITCHELL COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS...

* UNTIL 100 AM CDT
    
* AT 854 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE
  PRODUCED HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATES UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN AND MORE
  IS EXPECTED TO FALL WITHIN THE WARNED AREA. 

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  SNYDER...COLORADO CITY...CHINA GROVE...VALLEY VIEW...LORAINE...
  WESTBROOK...CUTHBERT...DUNN...HERMLEIGH...KNAPP...WINSTON FIELD...
  COLORADO CITY AIRPORT...IRA...CHAMPION CREEK RESERVOIR...LAKE J B
  THOMAS...UNION IN SCURRY COUNTY...RANDALLS CORNER...INADALE...MIDWAY IN
  SCURRY COUNTY AND BUFORD.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

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

&&

LAT...LON 3208 10111 3209 10118 3273 10117 3286 10066
      3223 10067

$$

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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, 8:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Crane, Reagan, Upton	3 hr
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, 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

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.