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Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 28, 2002, 9:05 AM CST for Reagan 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 28, 2002, 9:05 AM CST (15:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2002, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Reagan County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 567 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 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 281505 FFWMAF TXC383-281800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 904 AM CST MON OCT 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... REAGAN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL NOON CST * AT 858 AM CST...FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED OVER NORTHEAST REAGAN COUNTY ALONG FARM TO MARKET ROAD 2600...25 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF BIG LAKE. WATER WAS MOVING RAPIDILY OVER FARM TO MARKET ROAD 2600...NEAR HACKBERRY DRAW AND CORRAL CREEK. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3148 10130 3148 10147 3164 10146 3164 10129
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KMAF 281812 FFSMAF TXC383-281815- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1210 PM CST MON OCT 28 2002 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR REAGAN COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE FLOOD THREAT HAD DIMINISHED OVER REAGAN COUNTY. SOME MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE WITH A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY MOVING ACROSS THE COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON...HOWEVER THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING HAS ENDED. THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3137 10151 3138 10131 3162 10129 3161 10149
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 7:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Ward | 9 hr |
| Oct 27, 7:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 9 hr |
| Oct 27, 7:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Ward | 11 hr |
| Oct 27, 8:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 11 hr |
| Oct 27, 8:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 56 min |
| Oct 27, 9:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 55 min |
| Oct 27, 9:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 37 min |
| Oct 28, 1:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 38 min |
| Oct 28, 3:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 45 min |
| Oct 28, 6:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 41 min |
| Oct 28, 6:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 27 min |
| Oct 28, 6:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Martin | 27 min |
| Oct 28, 9:56 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 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.