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Flash Flood Warning 160, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
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.
- 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
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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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 44 min |
| Jul 18, 7:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Borden, Mitchell, Scurry | 44 min |
| Jul 18, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Martin, Midland | 51 min |
| Jul 18, 7:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden, Howard, Scurry | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 7:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Martin, Midland | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 7:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 4 hr |
| Jul 18, 8:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Howard, Martin | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 8:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden, Howard, Mitchell, Scurry | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 3:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Culberson, Reeves | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 5:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 4 hr |
| Jul 19, 9:42 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 42 min |
| Jul 19, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 38 min |
| Jul 19, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 18 min |
| Jul 19, 4:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 5:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Brewster | 50 min |
| Jul 19, 6:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Brewster | 28 min |
| Jul 19, 6:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 6:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Brewster | 46 min |
| Jul 19, 6:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster, Jeff Davis | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 8:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 47 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.