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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 24, 2003Ector County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 2003, 10:55 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, 10:55 PM CDT (03:55 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2003, 2:00 AM 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), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:56 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 329 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 250355
FFWMAF
TXC135-250700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1055 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 200 AM CDT

* EXTENSIVE FLASH FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE CITY OF ODESSA 
  NUMEROUS VEHICHLES HAVE BEEN FLOODED ON CITY STREETS AND HOMES DAMAGED 
  BY HIGH WATER. ADDITIONAL STORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT THE 
  CITY OF ODESSA WITHIN THE NEXT FEW HOURS.   
  
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  GARDENDALE...GOLDSMITH...NORTH COWDEN...NOTREES...ODESSA...PENWELL
  AND WEST ODESSA

THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS FLASH FLOODING SITUATION FOR THE CITY OF 
ODESSA 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 3206 10278 3167 10280 3168 10231 3207 10232

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KMAF 250520
FFSMAF
TXC135-250700-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1219 AM CDT SUN MAY 25 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR ECTOR COUNTY UNTIL 200 AM CDT...

AT 1215 AM CDT...LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN ODESSA CONTINUED TO REPORT 
SIGNIFICANT PROBLEMS FROM FLASH FLOODING...INCLUDING STRANDED 
VEHICLES ON MANY CITY STREETS. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL END FROM WEST TO 
EAST ACROSS THE COUNTY BY 100 AM CDT. DUE TO THE THREAT OF 
ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL OVERNIGHT AND THE ONGOING COMPLICATIONS 
FROM FLASH FLOODING...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ECTOR COUNTY 
CONTINUES THROUGH 200 AM CDT.

MOTORISTS WILL CONTINUE TO ENCOUNTER RAPIDLY RISING WATER IN 
UNDERPASSES...INTERSECTIONS AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE AREAS. MOST FLASH 
FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR AT NIGHT. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS

LAT...LON 3206 10278 3167 10279 3167 10230 3207 10231

$$

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, 7:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Ector	3 hr
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 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

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.