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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 10, 2002Presidio County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 2002, 3:02 AM CDT for Presidio 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: Jun 10, 2002, 3:02 AM CDT (08:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2002, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Presidio County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 301 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1790 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1976 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 100802
FFWMAF
TXC377-101100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
302 AM CDT MON JUN 10 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 600 AM CDT

* AT 255 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY 
  RAINFALL OCCURRING OVER CENTRAL PRESIDIO COUNTY...ABOUT 20 MILES 
  NORTHEAST OF SHAFTER...OR 20 MILES SOUTH OF MARFA.  MOVEMENT OF
  THESE STORMS IS EAST AT 15 MPH.  SATELLITE ESTIMATES INDICATED 
  UPWARDS OF 2 AND ONE HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER PARTS OF
  NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PRESIDIO COUNTY. 

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  MARFA...PRESIDIO...REDFORD...INDIO...ADOBES...SHAFTER...
  CANDELARIA...CASA PIEDRA...RYAN AND BIG BEND RANCH STATE PARK

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

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL INUNDATE ROADS AND FARM AND RANCH LAND. WATER 
WILL RAPIDLY FILL NORMALLY DRY ARROYOS AND DRAWS.

FLOODING IN MOUNTAINOUS AREAS IS ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. HEAVY RAINFALL 
EVEN IN THE DISTANT...CAN CREATE SUDDEN FLOWS CAPABLE OF OVERTAKING 
PERSONS DOWNSTREAM.  CAMPERS AND OTHER RECREATIONALISTS SHOULD MOVE 
TO HIGHER GROUND NOW

LAT...LON 3061 10495 2972 10456 2941 10423 2927 10380  3038 10381

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KMAF 101014
FFSMAF
TXC377-101115-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
511 AM CDT MON JUN 10 2002

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR PRESIDIO COUNTY UNTIL 600 AM 
CDT...

FLASH FLOODING HAD BEEN OBSERVED  AT 505 AM CDT...THE PRESIDIO 
COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED HIGH WATER COVERING HIGHWAY 67 15 
MILES SOUTH OF MARFA.  

AT 511 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF SHAFTER. THE STORM 
PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

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.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE
FLOOD DANGERS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS.

LAT...LON 2980 10447 2970 10417 2933 10383 3039 10382 3041 10409

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	40 min
Jun 9, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	50 min
Jun 10, 6:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Presidio	4 hr
Jun 10, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	52 min
Jun 10, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	44 min
Jun 10, 6:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Brewster	4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2002 Every 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.