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Flash Flood Warning 131, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

July 16, 2026Mitchell County, Scurry County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 2026, 10:33 AM CDT for Mitchell County, Scurry County, 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: Jul 16, 2026, 10:33 AM CDT (15:33 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2026, 1:30 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Mitchell County, TX, Scurry County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:34 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 341 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: 1095 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 16, 6:28 AM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 6:28 AM CDT, 4 hours 5 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
Jul 16, 10:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Borden, Scurry	3 hr
Jul 16, 12:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson	3 hr
Jul 16, 1:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	3 hr
Jul 16, 2:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Martin	3 hr
Jul 16, 2:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Andrews	3 hr
Jul 16, 3:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Brewster	3 hr
Jul 16, 3:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Ector, Winkler	38 min
Jul 16, 4:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Winkler	3 hr
Jul 16, 4:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Ward	42 min
Jul 16, 4:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Brewster	39 min
Jul 16, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ward, Winkler	29 min
Jul 16, 4:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Martin, Midland	3 hr
Jul 16, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Martin, Midland	33 min
Jul 16, 5:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Crane, Ector, Loving, Reeves, Ward, Winkler	3 hr
Jul 16, 5:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Ector, Midland	3 hr
Jul 16, 5:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Brewster	3 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.