Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 18, 2002, 7:34 PM CDT for Ector County, Midland 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
- Oct 18, 2002, 7:34 PM CDT (00:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2002, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Ector County, TX, Midland County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 14 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
- 745 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1051 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMAF 190034 FFWMAF TXC135-329-190330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 733 PM CDT FRI OCT 18 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ECTOR COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS MIDLAND COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 733 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF GARDENDALE TO 9 MILES EAST OF PLEASANT FARMS...OR FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF MIDLAND TO 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ODESSA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. SPOTTERS IN ODESSA REPORTED LOW-LYING ROADS FLOODING UP TO 2 AND 1/2 FEET WITH RUNOFF. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... COTTON FLAT...GARDENDALE...GOLDSMITH...GREENWOOD...MIDLAND... MIDLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...MIDLAND INTERNATIONAL AIR...MISSION DORADO...NORTH COWDEN...NOTREES...ODESSA...PENWELL...PLEASANT FARMS...SPRABERRY...VALLEY VIEW...WARFIELD AND WEST ODESSA IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE OVER A FLOODED ROAD. THE ROAD MAY BE WASHED OUT. MOTORISTS WILL ENCOUNTER RAPIDLY RISING 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 3166 10177 3166 10278 3208 10278 3208 10178
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KMAF 190057 FFSMAF TXC135-329-190300- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 754 PM CDT FRI OCT 18 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR ECTOR AND MIDLAND COUNTIES UNTIL 1030 PM CDT... AT 754 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREENWOOD TO 18 MILES SOUTH OF SPRABERRY. THE STORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. SPOTTERS IN ODESSA HAVE REPORTED STREET FLOODING AS DEEP AS 2 AND 1/2 FEET IN SOME LOCATIONS. AT 734 PM...2 HIGH WATER RESCUES WERE UNDERWAY IN ODESSA. ONE WAS AT 42ND AND DIXIE STREETS...THE OTHER AT 8TH AND PUEBLO STREETS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE OVER A FLOODED ROAD. THE ROAD MAY BE WASHED OUT. MOTORISTS WILL ENCOUNTER RAPIDLY RISING 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 3167 10181 3166 10278 3207 10276 3206 10179
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 4 days |
| Oct 18, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 4 days |
| Oct 18, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 5 days |
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.