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Flash Flood Warning 56, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 9, 2016, 10:28 PM CDT for Howard 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
- Sep 9, 2016, 10:28 PM CDT (03:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 2016, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Howard County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:31 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 672 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2574 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
772 WGUS54 KMAF 100328 FFWMAF TXC227-100630- /O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0056.160910T0328Z-160910T0630Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1028 PM CDT FRI SEP 9 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HOWARD COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS... * UNTIL 130 AM CDT * AT 1027 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN OVER SOUTHEAST BIG SPRING AND NORTHERN PARTS OF HOWARD COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE OVER THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... BIG SPRING...COAHOMA...SOUTH HAVEN...SAND SPRINGS...LUTHER... VEALMOOR...KNOTT...MIDWAY...VINCENT...BIG SPRING COUNTRY CLUB... FAIRVIEW AND BIG SPRING MCMAHON-WRINKLE AIRPARK. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. && LAT...LON 3252 10118 3214 10118 3221 10169 3252 10169 $$ 05
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos, Terrell | 37 min |
| Sep 9, 7:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Terrell | 62 min |
| Sep 9, 10:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Howard | 26 min |
| Sep 9, 10:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 3 hr |
| Sep 9, 11:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 3 hr |
| Sep 10, 1:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Andrews | 41 min |
| Sep 10, 4:56 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Dawson, Gaines, Howard, Martin | 3 hr |
| Sep 10, 9:41 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Sep 10, 11:25 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | 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.