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Flash Flood Warning 144, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

July 17, 2026Brewster County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 2026, 7:03 PM CDT for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 117 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 17, 2026, 7:03 PM CDT (00:03 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 2026, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 117 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Brewster County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 238 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: 1338 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1183 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 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 17, 6:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 6:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 17, 4:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 17, 4:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 17, 6:08 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 17, 6:23 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 17, 6:44 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 17, 6:47 PM CDT, 16 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 17, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	21 min
Jul 18, 2:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis	5 hr
Jul 18, 2:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF		38 min
Jul 18, 3:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Brewster, Jeff Davis	3 hr
Jul 18, 3:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Brewster, Pecos	3 hr
Jul 18, 4:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Dawson	42 min
Jul 18, 4:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Dawson, Gaines	3 hr
Jul 18, 4:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Terrell	57 min
Jul 18, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Pecos, Terrell	44 min
Jul 18, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	42 min
Jul 18, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	38 min
Jul 18, 5:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Brewster, Pecos, Terrell	3 hr
Jul 18, 5:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Dawson	3 hr
Jul 18, 5:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Terrell	46 min
Jul 18, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	32 min
Jul 17, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy, Lea	45 min
Jul 17, 7:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Lea	39 min
Jul 18, 5:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Lea	3 hr
Jul 18, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	42 min
Jul 18, 6:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Lea	3 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.