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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 25, 2016, 2:47 PM CDT for Dawson 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 25, 2016, 2:47 PM CDT (19:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2016, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Dawson County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 1007 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 911 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted.
924 WGUS54 KMAF 251947 FFWMAF TXC115-252245- /O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0036.160825T1947Z-160825T2245Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 247 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL DAWSON COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS... * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 245 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA INCLUDING IN THE CITY OF LAMESA. UP TO ONE INCH OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... LAMESA...LOS YBANEZ...HANCOCK...LAMESA MUNICIPAL AIRPORT... FRIENDSHIP...ARVANA...TENMILE AND KLONDIKE. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1-2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. && LAT...LON 3255 10191 3257 10209 3286 10196 3284 10180 $$ 03
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 10:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Ector | 113 min |
| Aug 25, 2:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Culberson | 45 min |
| Aug 25, 2:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Borden, Dawson, Gaines | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 2:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Culberson, Jeff Davis | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 3:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 49 min | |
| Aug 25, 3:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Culberson | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 5:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Reeves | 50 min |
| Aug 25, 5:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Crane | 50 min |
| Aug 25, 6:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos, Ward | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 6:21 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Gaines | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 6:56 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 2 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.