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Flash Flood Warning 122, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 23, 20254 counties in Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 23, 2025, 9:12 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 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: Oct 23, 2025, 9:12 PM CDT (02:12 UTC)
Expired: Oct 24, 2025, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Borden County, TX, Howard County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Scurry County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 1117 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2194 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Oct 23, 6:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 23, 6:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 23, 6:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 23, 7:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 23, 8:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 23, 8:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 23, 8:33 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 23, 9:05 PM CDT, 7 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
Oct 23, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Martin	54 min
Oct 23, 7:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Borden, Dawson	42 min
Oct 23, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Martin, Midland	66 min
Oct 23, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Loving, Ward, Winkler	63 min
Oct 23, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Ector, Ward, Winkler	42 min
Oct 23, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector, Midland	35 min
Oct 23, 8:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Ector	44 min
Oct 23, 8:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Borden, Howard, Scurry	57 min
Oct 23, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell, Scurry	44 min
Oct 23, 8:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Crane, Ector, Glasscock, Howard, Midland, Reagan and 1 more	42 min
Oct 23, 9:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Scurry	40 min
Oct 23, 10:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Midland	45 min
Oct 23, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	59 min
Oct 23, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Midland	17 min
Oct 24, 9:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Culberson	39 min
Oct 24, 10:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson	30 min
Oct 24, 10:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Loving	33 min
Oct 24, 10:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson, Reeves	29 min
Oct 24, 10:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis, Presidio	38 min
Oct 24, 11:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Jeff Davis, Pecos	48 min
Oct 24, 11:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Upton	42 min
Oct 24, 11:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson, Jeff Davis	49 min
Oct 24, 12:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	33 min
Oct 24, 12:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis, Reeves	26 min
Oct 24, 12:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos	47 min
Oct 24, 1:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Glasscock, Martin, Midland	41 min
Oct 24, 1:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Ector, Midland	113 min
Oct 24, 1:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Upton	38 min
Oct 24, 1:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Midland	50 min
Oct 24, 1:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Jeff Davis	33 min
Oct 24, 1:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Martin, Midland	2 hr
Oct 24, 1:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis, Pecos, Reeves	24 min
Oct 24, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Reagan	33 min
Oct 24, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis	47 min
Oct 24, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis, Pecos	44 min
Oct 24, 2:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Howard, Mitchell, Scurry	18 min
Oct 24, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	36 min
Oct 24, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Jeff Davis, Pecos	30 min
Oct 24, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Reagan, Upton	65 min
Oct 24, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	34 min
Oct 24, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Jeff Davis, Pecos	45 min
Oct 24, 3:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	115 min
Oct 24, 3:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Upton	3 hr
Oct 24, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Pecos	53 min
Oct 24, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Presidio	50 min
Oct 24, 4:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Reagan, Upton	3 hr
Oct 24, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Pecos	44 min
Oct 24, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan, Upton	42 min
Oct 24, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Presidio	37 min
Oct 24, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	13 min
Oct 24, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	35 min
Oct 24, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	53 min
Oct 24, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Presidio	35 min
Oct 24, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	46 min
Oct 24, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Brewster	45 min
Oct 24, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Terrell	62 min
Oct 24, 6:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Brewster	50 min
Oct 24, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	46 min
Oct 24, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Terrell	47 min
Oct 24, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Pecos, Terrell	62 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.