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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 17, 2016Reagan County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 17, 2016, 4:20 PM CDT for Reagan 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: May 17, 2016, 4:20 PM CDT (21:20 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2016, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Reagan County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 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 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 353 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -286 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2197 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

833 
WGUS54 KMAF 172120
FFWMAF
TXC383-180015-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0003.160517T2120Z-160518T0015Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
420 PM CDT TUE MAY 17 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND  HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
    
* AT 419 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR AND AUTOMATED RAIN GAUGES INDICATED
  A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. 1.61
  INCHES OF RAIN WAS REPORTED AT BIG LAKE WITHIN 45 MINUTES. FLASH
  FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  BIG LAKE AND REAGAN COUNTY 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 3108 10156 3121 10150 3125 10127 3108 10128

$$

84

1 follow-up statement

960 
WGUS74 KMAF 172324
FFSMAF

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
624 PM CDT TUE MAY 17 2016

TXC383-180015-
/O.CON.KMAF.FF.W.0003.000000T0000Z-160518T0015Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
REAGAN TX-
624 PM CDT TUE MAY 17 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN REAGAN COUNTY...

AT 622 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR AND AUTOMATED RAIN GAUGES INDICATED
THAT VERY HEAVY RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA. WHILE STORMS
HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...IT MAY BE ANOTHER HOUR BEFORE WATER
RECEDES FROM FLOODED ROADS.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
BIG LAKE AND REAGAN COUNTY AIRPORT. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3108 10156 3121 10150 3125 10127 3108 10128

$$

84

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 1:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Jeff Davis	52 min
May 17, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Presidio	63 min
May 17, 1:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Crane	49 min
May 17, 2:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF		51 min
May 17, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Ector, Midland, Upton	60 min
May 17, 2:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reagan	65 min
May 17, 2:52 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	MAF		16 hr
May 17, 2:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Reagan, Upton	31 min
May 17, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	62 min
May 17, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan, Upton	62 min
May 17, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	32 min
May 17, 4:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Crane	50 min
May 17, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Upton	60 min
May 17, 4:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Upton	24 min
May 17, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	41 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.