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Flash Flood Warning 116, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

September 15, 2025Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 15, 2025, 5:43 PM MDT for Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 4 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
Sep 15, 2025, 5:43 PM MDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired
Sep 15, 2025, 9:15 PM MDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 280 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2025-09-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 84 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2025-09-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -22 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
84 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2022 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 14, 6:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFReeves32 min
Sep 14, 6:36 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFGaines24 min
Sep 14, 6:58 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFReeves32 min
Sep 15, 1:57 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFCulberson33 min
Sep 15, 2:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFCulberson30 min
Sep 15, 4:53 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFReeves37 min
Sep 15, 5:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFJeff Davis29 min
Sep 15, 5:23 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFReeves37 min
Sep 15, 2:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFLea33 min
Sep 15, 2:42 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFEddy33 min
Sep 15, 3:13 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFEddy32 min
Sep 15, 3:42 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatMAFEddy4 hr
Sep 15, 3:43 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFEddy32 min
Sep 15, 4:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFEddy35 min
Sep 15, 4:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFLea32 min
Sep 15, 5:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFEddy28 min
Sep 15, 5:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFLea32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.