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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2002, 9:04 PM CDT for Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 15 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2002, 9:04 PM CDT (02:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2002, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Upton County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:08 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 1221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2292 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMAF 140204 FFWMAF TXC461-140500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 902 PM CDT THU JUN 13 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... UPTON COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 1200 PM CDT * AT 900 PM CDT...WATER WAS REPORTED OVER HIGHWAY 329 NORTHWEST OF RANKIN. IN ADDITION...STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN RANKIN. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3114 10228 3111 10193 3142 10182 3151 10227
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KMAF 140339 FFSMAF TXC461-140500- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1035 PM CDT THU JUN 13 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR UPTON COUNTY UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT... AT 1030 PM CDT...RAIN HAD ENDED ACROSS UPTON COUNTY....HOWEVER FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS WILL CONTINUE... ESPECIALLY NORTHWEST AND WEST OF RANKIN ALONG AND ADJACENT TO HIGHWAY 329 AND HIGHWAY 67. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE FLOOD DANGERS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS. LAT...LON 3113 10228 3114 10199 3144 10198 3148 10224
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 67 min |
| Jun 13, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 76 min |
| Jun 13, 7:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard, Martin | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 26 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002
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.