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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 14, 2021Howard County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 14, 2021, 6:00 PM CDT for Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 14, 2021, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2021, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 50

County Howard County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Aug 14, 2:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 2:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 14, 2:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 14, 4:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 14, 6:00 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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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
Aug 13, 7:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Jeff Davis, Reeves	3 hr
Aug 13, 7:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reeves	50 min
Aug 13, 7:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Loving, Reeves	3 hr
Aug 14, 2:03 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	MAF	Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Loving, Presidio, Reeves	24 hr
Aug 14, 7:45 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Culberson, Reeves	3 hr
Aug 14, 9:16 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Loving, Reeves, Ward	3 hr
Aug 14, 11:15 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Culberson	11 hr
Aug 14, 11:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Loving, Reeves, Ward, Winkler	3 hr
Aug 14, 4:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Howard, Mitchell	3 hr
Aug 14, 4:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Mitchell	46 min
Aug 14, 5:06 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Howard	3 hr
Aug 14, 8:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Eddy	3 hr
Aug 14, 11:48 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Eddy	10 hr
Aug 14, 3:15 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Eddy	11 hr
Aug 14, 5:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Eddy	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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.