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Flash Flood Warning 206, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

September 24, 2026Brewster County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 24, 2026, 9:04 PM CDT for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 116 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: Sep 24, 2026, 9:04 PM CDT (02:04 UTC)
Expired: Sep 24, 2026, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 116 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Brewster County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 401 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: 1652 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1090 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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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 Sep 24, 6:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 24, 6:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 24, 3:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 24, 5:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 24, 7:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 24, 7:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 24, 8:50 PM CDT, 14 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
Sep 24, 7:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Loving	40 min
Sep 24, 7:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF		46 min
Sep 24, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	39 min
Sep 24, 8:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Jeff Davis	40 min
Sep 24, 9:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Culberson	40 min
Sep 24, 9:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Brewster	46 min
Sep 25, 3:12 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MAF	Brewster	8 hr
Sep 25, 7:34 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Gaines	3 hr
Sep 25, 10:37 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MAF	Brewster	6 hr
Sep 25, 4:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Jeff Davis	39 min
Sep 25, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson, Jeff Davis, Reeves	42 min
Sep 25, 5:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reeves	35 min
Sep 25, 5:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reeves	47 min
Sep 24, 7:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Eddy	44 min
Sep 24, 7:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Eddy	118 min
Sep 25, 3:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Eddy	30 min
Sep 25, 3:26 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Eddy	3 hr
Sep 25, 4:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Eddy	37 min
Sep 25, 5:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Lea	35 min
Sep 25, 5:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Eddy	30 min
Sep 25, 5:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Eddy, 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.