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Flash Flood Warning 126, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

July 13, 2026Mitchell County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 2026, 7:06 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Texas. It was in force for 114 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 13, 2026, 7:06 PM CDT (00:06 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 2026, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
114 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Mitchell County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 327 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2026-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1339 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2026-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1339 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1353 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 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 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 Jul 13, 5:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 5:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 4:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos7 hr
Jul 14, 7:20 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatMAFPecos3 hr
Jul 14, 8:08 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatMAFPecos, Terrell4 hr
Jul 14, 10:53 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBrewster4 hr

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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.