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Red Flag Warning 14, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 28, 202521 counties in Texas; 5 counties in New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 28, 2025, 1:55 PM CDT for 21 counties in Texas; 5 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 29, 2025, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 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 28, 2025, 1:55 PM CDT (18:55 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 29, 2025, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: Mar 29, 2025, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

All 26 counties

Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Otero 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, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:55 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.

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 28, 10:51 AM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 10:51 AM CDT, 3 hours 4 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
Mar 27, 8:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Culberson	112 min
Mar 28, 2:42 AM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Culberson, Dawson, Ector and 13 more	11 hr
Mar 28, 1:13 PM CDT	High Wind Watch	MAF	Culberson	14 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2025 Red Flag Warnings in New Mexico, 2025 Every red flag warning in 2025

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.