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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 30, 2001Scurry County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 30, 2001, 7:30 PM CDT for Scurry 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 30, 2001, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2001, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Scurry County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 301 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3693 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 310036
FFWMAF
TXC415-310330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
730 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SCURRY COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 724 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF SCURRY
  COUNTY...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS NORTH AND NORTHWEST OF SNYDER.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...   
  SNYDER...RANDALLS CORNER...FLUVANNA...AND DERMOTT.

THE AREA OF GREATEST CONCERN AT THIS HOUR IS NORTHERN SCURRY 
COUNTY...WHERE RADAR IS ESTIMATING THAT 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS
FALLEN BETWEEN 630 TO 730 PM.  MUCH OF THIS RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE 
DEEP CREEK BASIN...AND THIS WATER WILL MAKE ITS WAY THROUGH SNYDER
AND EVENTUALLY DUNN.  SEVERAL FEET OF WATER COULD POTENTIALLY 
MAKE ITS WAY DOWN DEEP CREEK.  

AREA ROADWAYS...LOW SPOTS...AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS WILL ALSO 
EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING.  DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS 
WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO 
GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR5 CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING
WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 3295 10117 3252 10118 3252 10067 3296 10066

DJK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	46 min
May 30, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson	42 min
May 31, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Presidio	35 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.