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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 2002, 9:11 PM CDT for Pecos 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 as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2002, 9:11 PM CDT (02:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2002, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pecos County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:13 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1523 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMAF 070211
FFWMAF
TXC371-070600-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
907 PM CDT SAT JUL 6 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
PECOS COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 100 AM CDT
* AT 907 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
WAS OCCURRING OVER MUCH OF PECOS COUNTY...AND WAS MOVING SOUTH AT
AT 15 MPH. THE PECOS COUNTY SHERIFF/S OFFICE REPORTED WATER OVER
PORTIONS OF HIGHWAY 285 NORTH OF FORT STOCKTON...FM 1053 NORTH OF
FORT STOCKTON...AND HIGHWAY 385 SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...COYANOSA...IMPERIAL...
FORT STOCKTON...GIRVIN...BELDING AND BAKERSFIELD
DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES.
LAT...LON 3079 10340 3057 10254 3087 10216 3118 10253
3130 103021 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KMAF 070236 FFSMAF TXC371-070600- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 932 PM CDT SAT JUL 6 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR PECOS COUNTY UNTIL 100 AM CDT... AT 925 PM CDT...THE SHERIFF/S OFFICE IN PECOS COUNTY REPORTED HIGHWAY 18 FROM FORT STOCKTON TO 15 MILES NORTH OF FORT STOCKTON... AND HIGHWAY 285 FROM FORT STOCKTON TO THE TERRELL COUNTY LINE ARE CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER OVER THESE ROADS. AT 932 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER MUCH OF PECOS COUNTY...WITH THE STORMS MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3084 10347 3044 10278 3041 10248 3093 10220 3122 10270 3132 10301
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 44 min |
| Jul 6, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 84 min |
| Jul 6, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 22 days |
| Jul 6, 10:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 10:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Terrell | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 5:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Terrell | 3 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.