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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 28, 2001Midland County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 2001, 6:43 PM CDT for Midland 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 2001, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2001, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Midland County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 27 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 2001-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2001-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 150 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
150 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 282344
FFWMAF
TXC329-290245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
643 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2001

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN MIDLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 637 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A           
  THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN BETWEEN SPRABERRY AND            
  GREENWOOD...MOVING SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. RADAR HAS     
  INDICATED THAT UP TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THIS AREA 
  IN THE PAST TWO HOURS.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...     
  GREENWOOD...SPRABERRY...ROUTE 158...AND RANCH ROADS 307 AND 1379.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISI:NG WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 3181 10203 3181 10180 3207 10178 3206 10196

SMALLCOMB

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGlasscock, Midland48 min
May 28, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGlasscock, Midland60 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.