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Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 28, 2016, 10:39 PM CDT for Gaines County, Texas; Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 28, 2016, 10:39 PM CDT (03:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2016, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Lea County, NM, Gaines County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:39 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 10:47 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Hobbs, NM | JOE HARVEY BOULEVARD ON THE NORTH SIDE OF HOBBS IS FLOODING WITH SIX TO TWELEVE INCHES OF WATER OVER THE ROAD. |
| Aug 28, 10:56 PM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 4.19 | Hobbs, NM | MEASURED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF TOWN. STILL RAINING AT THIS TIME. |
| Aug 28, 11:31 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 2 Nw Hobbs, NM | KNEE DEEP WATER OVER ROAD AT COPPER AND GRIMES. |
| Aug 29, 12:21 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Seminole, TX | HIGHWAY 180 ON THE EAST SIDE OF SEMINOLE IS COMPLETELY FLOODED AND THE ROAD WILL BE CLOSED. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 689 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
839
WGUS54 KMAF 290339
FFWMAF
NMC025-TXC165-290630-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0042.160829T0339Z-160829T0630Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1039 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO...
GAINES COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS...
* UNTIL 130 AM CDT/1230 AM MDT/
* AT 1037 PM CDT/937 PM MDT/...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS
PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN
HAVE FALLEN IN SOME AREAS OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS. FLASH FLOODING
IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY OR IS ALREADY IN PROGRESS.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
HOBBS...LOVINGTON...SEMINOLE...DENVER CITY...EUNICE...SEAGRAVES...TATUM...
CROSSROADS...MCDONALD...KNOWLES...CAPROCK...GAINES COUNTY PARK...EUNICE
AIRPORT...BUCKEYE...GAINES COUNTY AIRPORT...OIL CENTER...MONUMENT...
SEAGRAVES AIRPORT...HUMBLE CITY AND HIGGINBOTHAM.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY WHEN YOU
CAN DO SO SAFELY.
&&
LAT...LON 3296 10306 3296 10222 3254 10222 3254 10315
3231 10317 3221 10372 3340 10377 3340 10372
3357 10372 3357 10305
$$
442 follow-up statements
672
WGUS74 KMAF 290351
FFSMAF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1051 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2016
NMC025-TXC165-290630-
/O.CON.KMAF.FF.W.0042.000000T0000Z-160829T0630Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LEA NM-GAINES TX-
1051 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 130 AM CDT/1230 AM
MDT/ FOR LEA AND GAINES COUNTIES...
AT 1048 PM CDT/948 PM MDT/...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED FLASH
FLOODING IN LEA AND GAINES COUNTIES. OVER 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAVE
FALLEN IN SOME LOCATIONS OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS. FLASH FLOODING IS
ALREADY OCCURRING, AND NUMEROUS ROADS ARE FLOODING.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
HOBBS...LOVINGTON...SEMINOLE...DENVER CITY...EUNICE...SEAGRAVES...TATUM...
CROSSROADS...MCDONALD...KNOWLES...CAPROCK...GAINES COUNTY PARK...EUNICE
AIRPORT...BUCKEYE...GAINES COUNTY AIRPORT...OIL CENTER...MONUMENT...
SEAGRAVES AIRPORT...HUMBLE CITY AND HIGGINBOTHAM.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY WHEN YOU
CAN DO SO SAFELY.
&&
LAT...LON 3296 10306 3296 10222 3254 10222 3254 10315
3231 10317 3221 10372 3340 10377 3340 10372
3357 10372 3357 10305
$$
44234
WGUS74 KMAF 290447
FFSMAF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1147 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2016
NMC025-TXC165-290630-
/O.CON.KMAF.FF.W.0042.000000T0000Z-160829T0630Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LEA NM-GAINES TX-
1147 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 130 AM CDT/1230 AM
MDT/ FOR LEA AND GAINES COUNTIES...
AT 1139 PM CDT/1039 PM MDT/...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED FLASH
FLOODING CONTINUING IN THE WARNED AREA. OVER 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
FALLEN NEAR HOBBS. FLASH FLOODING IS ALREADY OCCURRING.
SOME AREA REPORTS OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS:
6 TO 12 INCHES OF WATER RUNNING OVER HIGHWAY 62/385 10 TO 12 MILES
NORTH OF SEMINOLE, WITH STRANDED MOTORISTS.
MOTORISTS STUCK IN HIGH WATER ON HIGHWAY 62/180 23 TO 24 MILES WEST
OF SEMINOLE.
HIGHWAY 180 ON THE EAST SIDE OF SEMINOLE IS FLOODED WITH 6 TO 12
INCHES OF WATER FLOWING OVER THE ROAD.
HIGHWAY 8 BETWEEN HOBBS AND EUNICE HAS BEEN CLOSED DUE TO HIGH
WATER.
JOE HARVEY BOULEVARD ON THE NORTH SIDE OF HOBBS IS FLOODING WITH 6
TO 12 INCHES OF WATER FLOWING OVER THE ROAD.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY WHEN YOU
CAN DO SO SAFELY.
&&
LAT...LON 3296 10306 3296 10222 3254 10222 3254 10315
3231 10317 3221 10372 3340 10377 3340 10372
3357 10372 3357 10305
$$
44The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 7:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos, Terrell | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 8:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Terrell | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 9:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Gaines | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 10:02 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 46 hr |
| Aug 28, 11:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 11:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Dawson | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 12:59 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 1:25 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MAF | Gaines | 6 hr |
| Aug 29, 1:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 3:48 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Dawson, Martin | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 3:56 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 6 hr |
| Aug 29, 4:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MAF | Andrews, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Loving and 7 more | 47 hr |
| Aug 29, 7:36 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 1:14 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Andrews | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 1:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 4 hr |
| Aug 29, 3:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 5:51 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Pecos, Ward | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 9:23 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Lea | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 2:55 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2016Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2016Every 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.