1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Aug 26, 1:13 PM CST, 8 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 213 PM CDT SAT AUG 26 2006 .SHORT TERM... WEAK BOUNDARY NOTED JUST N OF KMAF WITH WIDESPREAD SFC DWPNTS IN THE LOW TO MID 60S. WATER VAPOR INDICATES MID LEVEL MST AXIS IN PLACE ACRS MUCH OF W TX/SE NM WITH SOME INDICATION OF SHRTWV TROF MOVING E ACRS NM. 12Z MAF SOUNDING VERY MST WITH PW/S 1.65. CONVECTIVE TEMP RATHER LOW AT 90 AND VISIBLE IMAGERY INDICATES TCU/SHRA ARE EXPANDING...ESPECIALLY S AND E IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO ELEVATED HEAT SOURCES AND WARMER TEMPS. SEE NO REASON WHY THIS TREND WOULDNT CONTINUE. SUBTROPICAL RIDGE IS WELL E AND STEERING FLOW IS GENERALLY FROM THE S-SW SO STORMS WILL HAVE CHANCE TO MOVE AWAY FROM MTNS. LOW LEVEL MSTR CONVERGENCE FIELDS ARE RATHER CONFUSED ATTP...BUT SHRA/TCU DO SEEM TO BE IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO AXIS AS DEPICTED BY RUC...ACRS ERN CWFA INTO CONCHO VALLEY. HAVE CONTINUED THE TREND OF INCREASED POPS THIS EVENING WHILE FURTHER EXPANDING MENTION OF HEAVY RAIN. ISOLATED LOCATIONS TO THE W RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN YESTERDAY AND LOCAL FLOODING IS AGAIN A CONCERN THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING. .LONG TERM... UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE TOWARD THE SOUTHEASTERN CONUS AND REMAIN IN THAT AREA THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL MOVE AROUND THE WESTERN EDGE OF THE RIDGE AS A STRONG UPPER LEVEL TROUGH MOVES ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS TO THE UPPER MID WEST BY WEDNESDAY. THIS TROUGH WILL PUSH A COLD FRONT INTO THE CWA MONDAY. MODELS DISAGREE ON THE TIMING OF THE FRONT WITH THE GFS MORE AGGRESSIVE IN MOVING THE FRONT INTO THE AREA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE CWA SUNDAY AS THE UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES MOVE AROUND THE RIDGE. A THETA-E RIDGE WILL BE IN PLACE OVER THE CWA THEREFORE WILL KEEP CHANCE POPS OVER ALL BUT THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST PORTION. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL INCREASE OVER THE AREA MONDAY AND CONTINUE ON TUESDAY AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE AREA. WITH PWATS IN THE 1.5 TO 1.75 INCH RANGE...HEAVY RAIN AND FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE MONDAY AND TUESDAY. THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING WILL INCREASE IF THE FRONT BECOMES STATIONARY. TOWARD THE END OF THE WEEK...THE UPPER RIDGE WILL TRY TO BUILD WESTWARD TOWARD THE CWA. ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL TROUGH MOVING INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST WEDNESDAY AND MOVING ACROSS THE INTERMOUNTAIN REGION WILL MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR THE RIDGE TO EXPAND TO THE WEST. THEREFORE...HAVE KEPT SLIGHT CHANCE TO CHANCE POPS OVER THE CWA WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. AFTER A WARM DAY SUNDAY...TEMPERATURES WILL BE MUCH COOLER MONDAY AND TUESDAY DUE TO CLOUD COVER...PRECIPITATION AND COLD AIR ADVECTION. HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER 80S CAN BE EXPECTED OVER THE NORTHERN CWA TUESDAY. A SLOW WARMING TREND WILL BEGIN WEDNESDAY AS THE HIGH BUILDS BACK TOWARD THE AREA WITH RISING 500 MB HEIGHTS WITH TEMPERATURES APPROACHING NORMAL THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BIG SPRING TX 73 92 69 87 / 40 40 50 50 CARLSBAD NM 69 94 69 86 / 40 40 40 50 DRYDEN TX 74 97 73 94 / 20 30 20 40 FORT STOCKTON TX 72 95 71 88 / 50 40 40 50 GUADALUPE PASS TX 66 87 65 81 / 30 40 40 50 HOBBS NM 69 94 68 87 / 50 40 40 40 MARFA TX 62 87 63 82 / 40 40 40 50 MIDLAND INTL AIRPORT TX 72 93 70 87 / 40 40 40 50 ODESSA TX 73 93 72 88 / 50 40 40 50 WINK TX 75 99 73 93 / 50 40 40 50 && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NM...NONE. TX...NONE. && 49/54
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 203 PM CDT SAT AUG 26 2006 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-271915- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS- NORTHERN LEA COUNTY-CENTRAL LEA COUNTY-SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY-GAINES- DAWSON-BORDEN-SCURRY-ANDREWS-MARTIN-HOWARD-MITCHELL- VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR- REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS-LOVING-WINKLER-ECTOR-MIDLAND- GLASSCOCK-WARD-CRANE-UPTON-REAGAN-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA- PECOS-PRESIDIO VALLEY-MARFA PLATEAU-BIG BEND AREA-TERRELL- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- 203 PM CDT SAT AUG 26 2006 /103 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS EXPECTED ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA INTO THE EVENING. THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL STRETCH FROM THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS NORTHEAST INTO SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND TO AROUND THE PECOS RIVER. ALSO THE NORTHERN AND EAST PERMIAN BASIN WILL BE FAVORED AREAS FOR STORMS. RAINFALL RATES NEAR AN INCH AN HOUR MAY RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ARROYOS...DRAWS...LOW WATER CROSSINGS...AND OTHER POORLY DRAINED AREAS. WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH DOWNBURSTS. DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR ANY THUNDERSTORM. THE ABUNDANCE OF MOISTURE AND TIME OF YEAR SUGGEST THAT TROPICAL FUNNEL CLOUDS ARE POSSIBLE INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL OCCUR SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...AS A COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS THE REGION. HEAVY RAINS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS EARLY NEXT WEEK...WHICH WILL INCREASE THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING AND FLASH FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS EVENING LOCAL OFFICIALS MAY HAVE TO RESPOND TO LOCAL FLOODING CONCERNS. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES... AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN MIDLAND CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT /LOWER CASE/ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/MIDLAND
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 17 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:40 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Six inches of water was flowing over the intersection of Wadley Avenue and Midland Drive.
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