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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 22, 2016Glasscock County, Howard County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 22, 2016, 8:50 PM CDT for Glasscock County, Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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: May 22, 2016, 8:50 PM CDT (01:50 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2016, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:50 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 76 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

861 
WGUS54 KMAF 230150
FFWMAF
TXC173-227-230545-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0005.160523T0150Z-160523T0545Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
850 PM CDT SUN MAY 22 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND  HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN HOWARD COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS...
  GLASSCOCK COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS...

* UNTIL 1245 AM CDT
    
* AT 848 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
  ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.

THIS INCLUDES  LOW WATER CROSSING LOCATIONS CR 110 CROSSING LACY
CREEK...CR 110 CROSSING LACY CREEK TRIB...OVERTON RD CROSSING NORTH
CONCHO RIVER...AND OVERTON RD CROSSING NORTH CONCHO RIVER TRIB.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.

TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

&&

LAT...LON 3209 10126 3165 10127 3173 10157 3201 10165
      3220 10165 3220 10124 3209 10124

$$

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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
May 22, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Martin	44 min
May 22, 7:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard	31 min
May 22, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Martin	54 min
May 22, 7:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MAF	Glasscock, Howard	34 min
May 22, 8:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock	32 min
May 22, 8:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock	33 min
May 22, 9:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MAF	Glasscock	35 min
May 22, 9:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Glasscock	46 min
May 22, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Midland	55 min
May 22, 9:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock	34 min
May 22, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Reagan	50 min
May 22, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Reagan	49 min
May 22, 11:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reagan	59 min
May 23, 4:00 AM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	MAF		10 hr
May 23, 4:00 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	MAF		18 hr
May 23, 2:10 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	MAF		32 hr
May 23, 2:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	50 min
May 23, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	59 min
May 23, 3:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Upton	39 min
May 23, 3:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	48 min
May 23, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	57 min
May 23, 3:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	38 min
May 23, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Reagan, Upton	66 min
May 23, 4:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Terrell	42 min
May 23, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	68 min
May 23, 4:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Glasscock	33 min
May 23, 5:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Howard	38 min
May 23, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	45 min
May 23, 5:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Howard	43 min
May 23, 5:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Terrell	32 min
May 23, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Glasscock, Howard, Mitchell	57 min
May 23, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	61 min
May 23, 6:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Martin	24 min
May 23, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson	63 min
May 23, 6:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Howard	50 min
May 23, 6:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MAF	Terrell	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.