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Red Flag Warning 18, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 5, 20246 counties in Texas; 5 counties in New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this red flag warning at May 5, 2024, 1:38 PM CDT for 6 counties in Texas; 5 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at May 6, 2024, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 5, 2024, 1:38 PM CDT (18:38 UTC)
In effect from: May 6, 2024, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: May 6, 2024, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Counties Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Otero County, NM, Brewster County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reeves County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:40 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 194 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 736 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 684 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag warning 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 red flag warning went out at May 5, 12:47 PM CDT, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 12:47 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 5, 3:35 AM CDT, 10 hours 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 5, 11:15 AM CDT, 2 hours 23 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
May 4, 7:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland, Reagan, Upton	3 hr
May 4, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Scurry	55 min
May 4, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	MAF	Terrell	42 min
May 4, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan, Upton	66 min
May 4, 7:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Borden, Mitchell, Scurry	117 min
May 4, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	MAF	Terrell	39 min
May 4, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Terrell	42 min
May 4, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	39 min
May 4, 8:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Terrell	3 hr
May 4, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	63 min
May 4, 8:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Reagan, Upton	2 hr
May 4, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Terrell	14 min
May 4, 8:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Terrell	47 min
May 5, 2:12 AM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	MAF	Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Loving, Presidio, Reeves	11 hr
May 5, 1:38 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	MAF	Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Loving, Presidio, Reeves	37 hr
May 5, 4:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	25 min
May 5, 5:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	28 min
May 5, 5:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	3 hr
May 5, 5:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	30 min
May 4, 7:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Eddy	48 min

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.