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Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 25, 2016, 6:00 PM CDT for Pecos County, Ward 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, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2016, 9:00 PM 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), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 113 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.
231
WGUS54 KMAF 252300
FFWMAF
TXC371-475-260200-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0038.160825T2300Z-160826T0200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
600 PM CDT THU AUG 25 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 900 PM CDT
* AT 556 PM CDT...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED BAR
DITCHES FILLING WITH WATER ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 18 NORTH OF
FORT STOCKTON. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN.
FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY...PARTICULARLY
ON STATE HIGHWAY 18 FROM 15 MILES NORTH OF FORT STOCKTON
NORTH TO THE INTERSECTION WITH STATE HIGHWAY 329 IN WARD
COUNTY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
GRANDFALLS AND IMPERIAL RESERVOIR.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3099 10309 3123 10302 3137 10291 3137 10277
3110 10277 3099 10287
$$
70The 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, 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, 6:21 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.