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Red Flag Warning 23, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 19, 202517 counties in Texas; 5 counties in New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this red flag warning at May 19, 2025, 2:05 AM CDT for 17 counties in Texas; 5 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at May 19, 2025, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 10 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 2025, 2:05 AM CDT (07:05 UTC)
In effect from: May 19, 2025, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: May 19, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 10 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, Brewster County, TX, Crane County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:08 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 was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 19, 4:38 PM CDT	NON-TSTM WND GST 67	3 Nnw Pine Springs, TX	Mesonet station GDBT2 The Bowl.
May 19, 5:34 PM CDT	NON-TSTM WND GST 67	Pine Springs, TX	Mesonet station 60 Pine Springs GMNP.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 4941 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 18, 11:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 11:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 18, 11:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 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 18, 8:20 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	MAF	Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Presidio	26 hr
May 18, 8:20 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Crane, Culberson, Dawson and 14 more	26 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.