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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 28, 2003Borden County, Dawson County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 28, 2003, 6:04 PM CDT for Borden County, Dawson County, Texas. It was in force for 116 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 28, 2003, 6:04 PM CDT (23:04 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 116 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Borden County, TX, Dawson County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 313 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -307 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 282306
FFWMAF
TXC033-115-290100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
604 PM CDT MON APR 28 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BORDEN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS
  DAWSON COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 604 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS
  PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER EASTERN DAWSON AND WESTERN
  BORDEN COUNTIES...GENERALLY EAST OF U.S. 84...MOVING EAST AT
  20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  GAIL...HANCOCK...KEY...MESQUITE...MIDWAY...SPARENBERG...AND
  THE INTERSECTION OF U.S. 180 AND TOBACCO CREEK.

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

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL INUNDATE ROADS AND FARM AND RANCH LAND. DO NOT
DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOWING WATER
IN A CAR OR ON FOOT.

LAT...L

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 27, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	45 min
Apr 28, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	54 min
Apr 28, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	40 min
Apr 28, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	46 min
Apr 28, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	61 min
Apr 28, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden	56 min
Apr 28, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	32 min
Apr 28, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	58 min
Apr 28, 6:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Martin	48 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.