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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 26, 2016, 6:40 PM CDT for Pecos County, Terrell 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 26, 2016, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2016, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Pecos County, TX, Terrell County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 192 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 809 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 864 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
975
WGUS54 KMAF 262340
FFWMAF
TXC371-443-270245-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0039.160826T2340Z-160827T0245Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
640 PM CDT FRI AUG 26 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS...
NORTHWESTERN TERRELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS...
* UNTIL 945 PM CDT
* AT 638 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
SANDERSON AND LONGFELLOW.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS...TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3015 10249 3012 10260 3012 10266 3016 10271
3020 10272 3028 10251 3035 10247 3044 10247
3048 10234 3041 10228 3028 10235 3022 10236
3011 10233 3009 10236
$$
70The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 3:13 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Presidio | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 3:37 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Brewster, Presidio | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 9:15 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 46 hr |
| Aug 26, 9:15 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 24 hr |
| Aug 26, 9:15 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 54 hr |
| Aug 26, 2:12 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Upton | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 4:04 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Ector, Midland | 3 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.