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Flash Flood Warning 60, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 24, 2016, 8:57 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, 8:57 PM CDT (01:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2016, 12:00 AM 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), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2121 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
257 WGUS54 KMAF 250157 FFWMAF TXC335-250500- /O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0060.160925T0157Z-160925T0500Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 857 PM CDT SAT SEP 24 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN MITCHELL COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS... * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT * AT 855 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THIS LOCATION FOR SEVERAL HOURS WITH OVER 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL POSSIBLE. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... CHAMPION CREEK RESERVOIR. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. && LAT...LON 3209 10098 3235 10090 3235 10066 3209 10067 $$
1 follow-up statement
317 WGUS74 KMAF 250329 FFSMAF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1029 PM CDT SAT SEP 24 2016 TXC335-250500- /O.CON.KMAF.FF.W.0060.000000T0000Z-160925T0500Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ MITCHELL TX- 1029 PM CDT SAT SEP 24 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN MITCHELL COUNTY... AT 1027 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE HEAVY RAIN HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNING AREA... HOWEVER OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN EARLIER WITH ADDITIONAL RAIN POSSIBLE. THEREFORE THE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... CHAMPION CREEK RESERVOIR. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. && LAT...LON 3209 10098 3235 10090 3235 10066 3209 10067 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 7:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Reagan | 2 hr |
| Sep 24, 10:40 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Glasscock, Reagan, Upton | 3 hr |
| Sep 24, 11:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 4 hr |
| Sep 25, 6:24 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Mitchell | 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.