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Flash Flood Warning 46, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 13, 2002, 8:17 PM CDT for Glasscock County, Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 118 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 13, 2002, 8:17 PM CDT (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2002, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Glasscock County, TX, Midland County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:17 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 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 1965 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMAF 140117 FFWMAF TXC173-329-140315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 814 PM CDT TUE AUG 13 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... GLASSCOCK COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS EASTERN MIDLAND COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 814 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 10 MILES EAST OF SPRABERRY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... BIGBY CORNER...COTTON FLAT...GARDEN CITY...GREENWOOD...LEES... MIDLAND...SPRABERRY...ST. LAWRENCE AND VALLEY VIEW DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3208 10209 3166 10208 3166 10127 3208 10128
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KMAF 140232 FFSMAF TXC173-329-140315- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 920 PM CDT TUE AUG 13 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR GLASSCOCK AND EASTERN MIDLAND COUNTIES UNTIL 1015 PM CDT... AT 905 PM CDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED ONE AND ONE HALF TO TWO FEET OF WATER OVER THE ROADS IN SAINT LAWRENCE IN GLASSCOCK COUNTY. AT 913 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS ALSO REPORTED TWO FEET OF WATER FLOWING RAPIDLY OVER FARM TO MARKET ROAD 1379 NEAR FARM TO MARKET 1213. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OVER THESE AREAS WILL CONTINUE TO AGGRAVATE ALREADY FLOODED ROADWAYS. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3208 10129 3206 10213 3166 10212 3167 10129
000 WGUS74 KMAF 140322 FFSMAF TXC173-329-140345- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1015 PM CDT TUE AUG 13 2002 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR GLASSCOCK AND EASTERN MIDLAND COUNTIES IS BEING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE HEAVY RAINFALL WAS ENDING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING ON HIGHWAY 349 SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20 HAS BEEN REPORTED...HOWEVER...THE ROAD REMAINS PASSABLE. MINOR FLOODING OF ROADWAYS MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE FLOOD DANGERS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS. LAT...LON 3208 10129 3208 10214 3167 10214 3166 10129
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 66 min |
| Aug 13, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 71 min |
| Aug 13, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Reagan | 59 min |
| Aug 13, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 50 min |
| Aug 13, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 45 min |
| Aug 13, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 52 min |
| Aug 13, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 78 min |
| Aug 13, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 59 min |
| Aug 13, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 52 min |
| Aug 13, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 99 min |
| Aug 13, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 69 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.