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Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 24, 2016, 5:57 PM CDT for Mitchell 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 24, 2016, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 24, 2016, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Mitchell County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 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 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 1161 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1112 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
143 WGUS54 KMAF 242257 FFWMAF TXC335-250200- /O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0059.160924T2257Z-160925T0200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 557 PM CDT SAT SEP 24 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MITCHELL COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS... * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 553 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA... WITH THE HEAVIEST BEING FROM COLORADO CITY SOUTHWARD TO THE STERLING COUNTY LINE. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN NEAR SH 163 AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS SOME FLOODING OF ROADS HAS ALREADY BEGUN. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... COLORADO CITY...VALLEY VIEW...LORAINE...WESTBROOK... LAKE COLORADO CITY STATE PARK...COLORADO CITY AIRPORT... CHAMPION CREEK RESERVOIR...LAKE COLORADO CITY... CUTHBERT AND BUFORD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. && LAT...LON 3251 10068 3209 10068 3210 10108 3251 10103 $$
1 follow-up statement
949 WGUS74 KMAF 250032 FFSMAF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 732 PM CDT SAT SEP 24 2016 TXC335-250200- /O.CON.KMAF.FF.W.0059.000000T0000Z-160925T0200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ MITCHELL TX- 732 PM CDT SAT SEP 24 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR MITCHELL COUNTY... AT 730 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. TWO INCHES OR MORE OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN IN POTIONS OF SOUTHEASTERN MITCHELL COUNTY WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL POSSIBLE. LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS REPORTED FLOODING OF UNKNOWN DEPTH ON HWY 208 AND ON HWY 139. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... COLORADO CITY...VALLEY VIEW...LORAINE...WESTBROOK... LAKE COLORADO CITY STATE PARK...COLORADO CITY AIRPORT... CHAMPION CREEK RESERVOIR...LAKE COLORADO CITY...CUTHBERT AND BUFORD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. && LAT...LON 3251 10068 3209 10068 3210 10108 3251 10103 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 3:22 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | 11 hr | |
| Sep 24, 3:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 12 more | 44 hr |
| Sep 24, 1:56 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | MAF | 47 hr | |
| Sep 24, 2:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Mitchell | 58 min |
| Sep 24, 3:13 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Mitchell | 4 hr |
| Sep 24, 3:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Scurry | 46 min |
| Sep 24, 4:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 115 min |
| Sep 24, 6:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Brewster, Pecos | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.