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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 4, 2002Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 2002, 5:44 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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
Jun 4, 2002, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 2002, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
4 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), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 138 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2002-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4820 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2002-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
4820 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
975 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 042244
FFWMAF
TXC371-050245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
543 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 538 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS      
  WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE OCCURRING FROM 11 MILES EAST OF        
  BAKERSFIELD TO 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT STOCKTON...MOVING        
  NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...INDEPENDENCE CREEK...HARRAL     
  DRAW...LOW WATER CROSSINGS ALONG FM 2023...AND ALONG HIGHWAY 285   
  ROUGHLY 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT STOCKTON

DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES.

LAT...LON 3069 10280 3047 10266 3062 10239 3063 10218           
3069 10214 3069 10187 3092 10194 3104 10235

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFTerrell64 min
Jun 4, 4:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos27 min
Jun 4, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos60 min

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.