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Red Flag Warning 12, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this red flag warning at Apr 17, 2026, 2:01 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas; 5 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 17, 2026, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 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
- Apr 17, 2026, 2:01 AM CDT (07:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 17, 2026, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2026, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Counties Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Otero County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Gaines County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 181 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:00 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 348 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 5468 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Apr 17, 12:54 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 12:54 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 29 min |
| Apr 17, 12:05 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 12 hr |
| Apr 17, 12:25 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | MAF | Culberson | 25 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in New Mexico, 2026Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2026Every red flag warning in 2026
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.