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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 23, 2016Pecos County, Ward County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 23, 2016, 10:00 PM CDT for Pecos County, Ward County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Aug 23, 2016, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 2016, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Pecos County, TX, Ward County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:03 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 23, 10:00 PM CDTFLASH FLOOD15 N Fort Stockton, TXSH 18 COVERED WITH 2-3FT OF WATER FROM 15 N FST TO PECOS RIVER. WATER RESCUES ONGOING.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 104 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 00:00Z on 2016-08-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1488 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-08-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 78 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
1488 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1666 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

527 
WGUS54 KMAF 240300
FFWMAF
TXC371-475-240600-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0035.160824T0300Z-160824T0600Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1000 PM CDT TUE AUG 23 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS...
  SOUTHEASTERN WARD COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS...

* UNTIL 100 AM CDT

* AT 956 PM CDT...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED 2 TO 3
  FEET OF WATER OVER STATE HIGHWAY 18 WITH WATER RESCUES ONGOING.
  THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL
  PECOS AND SOUTHEASTERN WARD COUNTIES.  

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  STATE HIGHWAY 18 FROM 15 MILES NORTH OF FORT STOCKTON TO STATE 
  HIGHWAY 349...GRANDFALLS...IMPERIAL RESERVOIR AND ROYALTY. 

 THIS INCLUDES  LOW WATER CROSSINGS ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 18.


LAT...LON 3142 10294 3132 10277 3125 10277 3101 10292
      3102 10312

$$

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 23, 7:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFCrane35 min
Aug 23, 7:41 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFCrane, Pecos, Ward2 hr
Aug 24, 12:40 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMAFReeves, Ward3 hr
Aug 24, 3:26 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMAFCulberson, Loving, Reeves3 hr
Aug 24, 4:51 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMAFAndrews, Culberson, Gaines, Loving, Reeves3 hr
Aug 24, 6:15 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMAFEctor, Midland3 hr
Aug 24, 3:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFUpton40 min
Aug 24, 3:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFPecos53 min
Aug 24, 4:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFMidland, Upton54 min
Aug 24, 5:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFHoward47 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.