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Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 27, 2016, 11:34 PM MDT for Lea 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 27, 2016, 11:34 PM MDT (05:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2016, 2:30 AM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Lea County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:37 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2329 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
901
WGUS54 KMAF 280534
FFWMAF
NMC025-280830-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0040.160828T0534Z-160828T0830Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1134 PM MDT SAT AUG 27 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO...
* UNTIL 230 AM MDT
* AT 1133 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS NORTHWESTERN LEA COUNTY. ONE TO TWO INCHES OF
RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN
SHORTLY...ESPECIALLY NORTH OF CAPROCK.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
CAPROCK.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 3335 10343 3327 10377 3340 10377 3340 10372
3357 10372 3357 10344
$$
671 follow-up statement
679
WGUS74 KMAF 280700
FFSMAF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
100 AM MDT SUN AUG 28 2016
NMC025-280830-
/O.CON.KMAF.FF.W.0040.000000T0000Z-160828T0830Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LEA NM-
100 AM MDT SUN AUG 28 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 AM MDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN LEA COUNTY...
AT 1259 AM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS ANTICIPATED...IF NOT ALREADY
OCCURRING.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
CAPROCK.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 3335 10343 3327 10377 3340 10377 3340 10372
3357 10372 3357 10344
$$
67The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 10:03 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Lea | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 1:45 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Lea | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 2:29 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 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.