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Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 25, 2016Culberson County, Texas; Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 25, 2016, 3:42 PM CDT for Culberson County, Texas; Eddy County, New Mexico. 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, 3:42 PM CDT (20:42 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2016, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Eddy County, NM, Culberson County, TX

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 112 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -171 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2171 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

728 
WGUS54 KMAF 252042
FFWMAF
NMC015-TXC109-252345-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0037.160825T2042Z-160825T2345Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
342 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO...
  NORTHWESTERN CULBERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS...

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT/545 PM MDT/

* AT 341 PM CDT/241 PM MDT/...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS
  PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO ONE INCH OF RAIN
  HAS ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 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.

REMAIN ALERT FOR FLOODING EVEN IN LOCATIONS NOT RECEIVING RAIN.
ARROYOS...STREAMS...AND RIVERS CAN BECOME RAGING KILLER CURRENTS IN A
MATTER OF MINUTES...EVEN FROM DISTANT RAINFALL.

&&

LAT...LON 3197 10492 3200 10490 3200 10485 3207 10485
      3219 10452 3206 10449 3192 10465 3187 10477
      3185 10492

$$

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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, 2:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Dawson	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, 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
Aug 25, 3:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Eddy	3 hr
Aug 25, 5:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Lea	45 min
Aug 25, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	37 min
Aug 25, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	31 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2016 Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2016 Every flash flood warning in 2016

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.