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Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 2002, 4:16 PM CDT for Pecos 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 as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 2002, 4:16 PM CDT (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2002, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 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), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 3934 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 895 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 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 292116
FFWMAF
TXC371-300015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
410 PM CDT MON JUL 29 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
* AT 410 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AREAS OF 2 TO 4 INCH
RAINS HAD FALLEN SINCE 3 PM CDT ACROSS THE COUNTY. AT 405 PM DOPPLER
RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ABOUT
THE COUNTY.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
FORT STOCKTON...COYANOSA...COYANOSA DRAW...INDEPENDENCE CREEK
HIGHWAY 385...HIGHWAY 285...INTERSTATE 10
DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES.
LAT...LON 3080 10354 3023 10268 3059 10238 3080 10191
3133 103051 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KMAF 300023
FFSMAF
TXC371-300145-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
709 PM CDT MON JUL 29 2002
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR PECOS COUNTY UNTIL 845 PM
CDT...
AT 709 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LARGE CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL
OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY. THIS INCLUDES THE FORT
STOCKTON AREA AND INTERSTATE 10. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT
BETWEEN 2 AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ALONG HIGHWAY 285 IN
SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA MAY
PRODUCE AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL THIS EVENING.
FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS ALONG HIGHWAY 285 IN SOUTH PECOS COUNTY
IS POSSIBLE.
DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES.
LAT...LON 3079 10357 3010 10261 3030 10258 3032 10240
3064 10239 3070 10182 3093 10194 3106 10240
3124 10252 3124 10283 3135 10300The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 20 hr |
| Jul 29, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 2 hr |
| Jul 29, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 3 days |
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.