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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 23, 2016Culberson County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 23, 2016, 6:07 PM CDT for Culberson 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
Aug 23, 2016, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 2016, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Culberson County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 194 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2016-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 742 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2016-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 145 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
742 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1007 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.0

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The text

As transmitted.

017 
WGUS54 KMAF 232307
FFWMAF
TXC109-240200-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0032.160823T2307Z-160824T0200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
607 PM CDT TUE AUG 23 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN CULBERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS...

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 601 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE DELAWARE RIVER DRAINAGE AREA. FLASH FLOODING 
  IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY...PARTICULARLY RANCH TO MARKET ROAD 
  652 WHERE IT CROSSES WHITE HORSE DRAW.  

* FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN
  CULBERSON COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3200 10441 3200 10402 3167 10405 3161 10414
      3171 10445

$$

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 23, 3:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFReeves42 min
Aug 23, 3:43 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMAFReeves2 hr
Aug 23, 3:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFCrane48 min
Aug 23, 4:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFReeves3 hr
Aug 23, 5:23 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMAFCrane3 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.