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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
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.
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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 10:00 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 15 N Fort Stockton, TX | SH 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.
- 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
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
$$
70The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 7:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Crane | 35 min |
| Aug 23, 7:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos, Ward | 2 hr |
| Aug 24, 12:40 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Reeves, Ward | 3 hr |
| Aug 24, 3:26 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Culberson, Loving, Reeves | 3 hr |
| Aug 24, 4:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Culberson, Gaines, Loving, Reeves | 3 hr |
| Aug 24, 6:15 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Ector, Midland | 3 hr |
| Aug 24, 3:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Upton | 40 min |
| Aug 24, 3:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Pecos | 53 min |
| Aug 24, 4:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Midland, Upton | 54 min |
| Aug 24, 5:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Howard | 47 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.