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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 30, 2016, 8:42 PM CDT for Glasscock County, Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. 2 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
- May 30, 2016, 8:42 PM CDT (01:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2016, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Glasscock County, TX, Midland County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:43 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 9:50 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Spraberry, TX | ROUTE BETWEEN 137 AND I20 NEARLY IMPASSABLE DUE TO WATER OVER ROAD. |
| May 30, 10:04 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Sw Greenwood, TX | ROAD IMPASSABLE BY SEDAN, WATER ABOUT 18 INCHES DEEP ON THE ROAD. |
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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 1489 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2139 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted.
472
WGUS54 KMAF 310142
FFWMAF
TXC173-329-310445-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0009.160531T0142Z-160531T0445Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
842 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN MIDLAND COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS...
NORTHWESTERN GLASSCOCK COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS...
* UNTIL 1145 PM CDT
* AT 839 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING
FROM A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
GREENWOOD AND SPRABERRY...
THIS INCLUDES LOW WATER CROSSING LOCATIONS ALONG HIGHWAY 307 BETWEEN
FARM TO MARKET 1379 AND 1105.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE. TURN
AROUND DONT DROWN
&&
LAT...LON 3208 10169 3182 10166 3182 10204 3206 10205
$$
491 follow-up statement
643 WGUS74 KMAF 310328 FFSMAF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1028 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2016 TXC173-329-310445- /O.CON.KMAF.FF.W.0009.000000T0000Z-160531T0445Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ MIDLAND TX-GLASSCOCK TX- 1028 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1145 PM CDT FOR NORTHEASTERN MIDLAND AND NORTHWESTERN GLASSCOCK COUNTIES... AT 1024 PM CDT...THE STORMS THAT PRODUCED HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE GREENWODD AREA EARLIER HAVE DISSIPATED. HOWEVER OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE GREENWOOD AREA AND MULTIPLE ROADS ARE FLOODING WITH REPORTS OF AROUND 3 FEET OF WATER IN SOME OF THE BAR DITCHES AND A FOOT AND HALF OF WATER ACROSS SOME ROADS IN TOWN. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... GREENWOOD...SPRABERRY...AND SURROUNDING RURAL AREAS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE. && LAT...LON 3208 10169 3182 10166 3182 10204 3206 10205 $$ 49
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 29 min |
| May 30, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 63 min |
| May 30, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 60 min |
| May 30, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Jeff Davis, Presidio | 48 min |
| May 30, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 40 min |
| May 30, 7:53 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Scurry | 3 hr |
| May 30, 8:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Martin | 47 min |
| May 30, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Jeff Davis, Presidio | 61 min |
| May 30, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 63 min |
| May 30, 9:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Pecos | 58 min |
| May 30, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 60 min |
| May 30, 9:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Ward | 47 min |
| May 30, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Dawson, Martin | 57 min |
| May 30, 9:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Reeves | 44 min |
| May 30, 10:11 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Dawson, Gaines, Martin | 3 hr |
| May 30, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Dawson, Gaines, Martin | 63 min |
| May 30, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Martin, Midland | 34 min |
| May 30, 11:02 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Martin, Midland | 3 hr |
| May 30, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Glasscock, Midland | 46 min |
| May 30, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard, Martin | 31 min |
| May 30, 11:38 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 3 hr |
| May 30, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 30 min |
| May 30, 11:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 3 hr |
| May 31, 12:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Howard | 42 min |
| May 31, 12:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Howard | 3 hr |
| May 31, 2:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Presidio | 54 min |
| May 31, 2:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 12 more | 37 hr |
| May 31, 3:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Scurry | 44 min |
| May 31, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 49 min |
| May 31, 6:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Dawson | 60 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.