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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 24, 2003Ector County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 2003, 7:57 PM CDT for Ector 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: May 24, 2003, 7:57 PM CDT (00:57 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2003, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ector County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 327 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: 317 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -147 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 250057
FFWMAF
TXC135-250400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
757 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ECTOR COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 757 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
  WAS OCCURRING 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NORTH COWDEN...OR ABOUT 9 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF ODESSA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  NORTH COWDEN...ODESSA AND WEST ODESSA

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

LAT...LON 3198 10260 3179 10255 3184 10230 3207 10250

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS74 KMAF 250204
FFSMAF
TXC135-173-329-250245-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
904 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 2003

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR MIDLAND AND GLASSCOCK COUNTIES 
UNTIL 915 PM CDT...

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR ECTOR COUNTY UNTIL 1100 PM 
CDT...

AT 851 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
DETECT AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS FROM NEAR 
GARDENDALE IN NORTHERN ECTOR COUNTY...TO ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF 
MIDLAND IN SOUTHEAST MIDLAND COUNTY.

ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WILL MOVE INTO ECTOR AND 
MIDLAND COUNTIES FROM SOUTHERN ANDREWS AND MARTIN COUNTIES THROUGH 
915 PM CDT. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN WILL BE LIKELY 
WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. 

FLOODING OF URBAN AND LOW LYING AREAS...AS WELL AS AREA ROADS WILL 
BE LIKELY...PARTICULARY IN ECTOR AND MIDLAND COUNTIES. ADDITIONAL 
RAINFALL ENTERING THE COUNTIES FROM THE NORTH WILL LIKELY CONTRIBUTE 
TO ADDITIONAL FLOODING PROBLEMS. 

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

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

LAT...LON 3205 10276 3168 10276 3168 10135 3202 10131

$$

000 
WGUS74 KMAF 250302
FFSMAF
TXC135-250400-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1001 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR ECTOR COUNTY UNTIL 1100 PM
CDT...

...AT 950 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS RELAYED A REPORT OF STRANDED CARS 
IN HIGH WATER AT 42ND AND DIXIE STREET IN ODESSA...

...AT 935 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED WATER COVERING THE ROAD 
AT ANDREWS HIGHWAY IN NORTHWEST ECTOR COUNTY...

...AT 930 PM CDT...FLOODING WAS REPORTED AT 42ND AND TOM GREEN 
STREET IN ODESSA...

AT 959 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
DETECT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER ODESSA...AND OVER MUCH OF EASTERN 
ECTOR COUNTY. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO 
NORTHERN ECTOR COUNTY FROM SOUTHERN ANDREWS COUNTY OVER THE NEXT 
HOUR. THE STORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

REMEMBER...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS FLASH FLOODING IS IMMINENT. 
DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR 
IN AUTOMOBILES.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE 
FLOOD DANGERS. 

LAT...LON 3208 10274 3170 10273 3167 10231 3206 10230

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Andrews	3 hr
May 24, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	49 min
May 24, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	40 min
May 24, 9:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Midland	3 hr
May 24, 10:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Andrews	3 hr
May 24, 10:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Ector	3 hr
May 25, 2:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis	4 hr
May 25, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis	60 min
May 25, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	56 min
May 25, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	51 min
May 25, 5:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Brewster	4 hr
May 25, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	60 min
May 25, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	52 min
May 25, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	61 min
May 25, 6:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	4 hr
May 25, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	30 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2003 Every flash flood warning in 2003

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.