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Flood Watch 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flood watch at Aug 19, 2022, 1:29 PM CDT for 19 counties in Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 42 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 2022, 1:29 PM CDT (18:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2022, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 42 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Flood severity
- None
All 21 counties
Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Crane County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:32 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 282 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1220 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Aug 19, 12:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 12:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 8:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 2:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis, Pecos | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 3:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reagan | 119 min |
| Aug 19, 4:34 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 5:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Brewster | 52 min |
| Aug 19, 5:56 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Brewster | 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.