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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 1, 2002, 10:31 PM CDT for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 119 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 2002, 10:31 PM CDT (03:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2002, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Midland County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:34 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 7 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
- 485 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2787 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
702 WGUS54 KMAF 020331 FFWMAF TXC329-020530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1028 PM CDT THU AUG 1 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHWEST MIDLAND COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 1230 AM CDT * AT 1028 PM CDT...MIDLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED NUMEROUS VEHICLES STALLED IN HIGH WATER ON MIDKIFF AND GARFIELD...JUST SOUTH OF LOOP 250. ALTHOUGH THE HEAVY RAIN HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...THE HIGH WATER WILL TAKE SOME TIME TO RECEDE. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3186 10224 3186 10206 3207 10188 3204 10222 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KMAF 020407 FFSMAF TXC329-020430- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1105 PM CDT THU AUG 1 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR NORTHWESTERN MIDLAND COUNTY UNTIL 1130 PM CDT... AT 1100 PM CDT....REPORTS FROM LOCAL OFFICIALS INDICATED THAT THE SIGNIFICANT FLASH FLOODING IN THE CITY OF MIDLAND WAS RECEDING RAPIDLY. THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 1130 PM. PERSONS IN NORTHWEST MIDLAND COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF MIDLAND...SHOULD CONTINUE THEIR FLASH FLOOD PRECAUTIONS THROUGH 1130 PM. MOTORISTS MAY EXPERIENCE HIGH WATER IN UNDERPASSES...INTERSECTIONS AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE FLOOD DANGERS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS. LAT...LON 3206 10227 3183 10228 3207 10178 3208 10181
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 51 min |
| Aug 1, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 10:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 111 min |
| Aug 2, 12:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 7:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reeves | 3 hr |
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.