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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2001, 10:05 PM CDT for Glasscock County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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
- Aug 9, 2001, 10:05 PM CDT (03:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2001, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Glasscock County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:06 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, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 780 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1772 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS64 KMAF 100310 CCA
FFWMAF
TXC173-100700-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED PRODUCT ID
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1005 PM CDT THU AUG 9 2001
THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
EASTERN GLASSCOCK COUNTY IN TEXAS
* UNTIL 200 AM CDT
* AT 1000 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR ST. LAWRENCE...MOVING EAST
AT 15 MPH. ADDITIONAL STORMS ARE ALSO MOVING INTO THE AREA FROM
THE SOUTH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE...
ST.LAWRENCE...LEES...AND GARDEN CITY
THE GROUND IN THIS AREA IS ALREADY SATURATED FROM PREVIOUS RAINS.
THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL ONLY MAKE MATTERS WORSE...ESPECIALLY
NEAR ST. LAWRENCE.
LAT...LON 3175 10165 3167 10150 3169 10131 3178 10132
3209 10127 3208 10155What 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 Aug 9, 9:19 PM CDT, 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 9:19 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 919 PM CDT THU AUG 9 2001 BOUNDARY INTERACTIONS/SHEAR AXIS ALOFT/ABUNDANT MSTR ENUF TO MAKE FOR AN ACTIVE RADAR. STORMS SLOWLY DECREASING E WHILE NEW DEVELOPS OCCUR N AND W THEREFORE NO CHANGES PLANNED. WITH HEAVY RAINS THIS EVENING MORE POTENTIAL PROBLEMS TMW WITH MM5 AGAIN SHOWING AN ACTIVE DAY. LATER SHIFTS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE TO HIGHLIGHT FLOODING/HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL. .MAF... TX...NONE. NM...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard | 4 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.