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Red Flag Warning 11, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 16, 2025, 1:17 PM CDT for 17 counties in Texas; 5 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 17, 2025, 1:00 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
- Mar 16, 2025, 1:17 PM CDT (18:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 17, 2025, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
All 22 counties
Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Otero County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Crane County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Upton County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 356 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2798 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Mar 16, 6:21 AM CDT, 6 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 6:21 AM CDT, 6 hours 56 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 2:28 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Andrews, Brewster, Culberson, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 8 more | 36 hr |
| Mar 16, 1:17 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Crane, Culberson, Dawson and 18 more | 37 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.