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Flash Flood Warning 160, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

July 19, 2026Culberson County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 2026, 12:39 PM CDT for Culberson 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 19, 2026, 12:39 PM CDT (17:39 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 2026, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Culberson County, TX

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 212 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:42 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 226 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2026-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1047 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2026-07-19The 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
1047 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
759 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1 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 19, 11:07 AM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 11:07 AM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 7:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGlasscock, Midland44 min
Jul 18, 7:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFBorden, Mitchell, Scurry44 min
Jul 18, 7:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews, Martin, Midland51 min
Jul 18, 7:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBorden, Howard, Scurry3 hr
Jul 18, 7:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFAndrews, Martin, Midland3 hr
Jul 18, 7:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFMitchell, Scurry4 hr
Jul 18, 8:16 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatMAFAndrews, Howard, Martin3 hr
Jul 18, 8:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBorden, Howard, Mitchell, Scurry3 hr
Jul 19, 3:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFCulberson, Reeves3 hr
Jul 19, 5:40 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBrewster4 hr
Jul 19, 9:42 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningMAFBrewster3 hr
Jul 19, 4:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster42 min
Jul 19, 4:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster38 min
Jul 19, 4:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster18 min
Jul 19, 4:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBrewster3 hr
Jul 19, 5:55 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFBrewster50 min
Jul 19, 6:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFBrewster28 min
Jul 19, 6:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBrewster3 hr
Jul 19, 6:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFBrewster46 min
Jul 19, 6:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBrewster, Jeff Davis3 hr
Jul 18, 8:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMAFLea47 min

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.