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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 31, 2003Midland County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 31, 2003, 7:32 PM CDT for Midland 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 31, 2003, 7:32 PM CDT (00:32 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 2003, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Midland County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 7 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 6 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 00:00Z on 2003-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 470 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2003-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
470 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3647 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-9 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 010033
FFWMAF
TXC329-010330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
732 PM CDT SAT MAY 31 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 732 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS
  PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF THE
  MIDLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  THE CITY OF MIDLAND AND SURROUNDNG RURAL AREAS OVER NORTHERN
  MIDLAND COUNTY
     
FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED AT THE INTERSECTION OF FM1788 AND WEST 
COUNTY ROAD 60.

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

LAT...LON 3207 10227 3189 10228 3192 10206 3207 10205

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS74 KMAF 010309
FFSMAF
TXC329-010500-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1000 PM CDT SAT MAY 31 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR MIDLAND COUNTY UNTIL 1030 PM CDT...

STORMS HAVE MOVED OUT OF MIDLAND COUNTY...HOWEVER FLOODING AND FLASH FLOODING 
ARE STILL BEING REPORTED. EARLIER AS MUCH AS TWO INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN LESS 
THAN AN HOUR IN PARTS OF MIDLAND COUNTY. REPORTS FROM LOCAL OFFICIALS
INDICATE THAT FLOODING OF ROADS IS MOST COMMON IN NORTHWEST MIDLAND COUNTY
AND IN EAST MIDLAND COUNTY NEAR GREENWOOD. COUNTY ROAD 1110 AND FM 307 HAVE 
AS MUCH AS ONE AND ONE HALF FEET OF WATER OVER THEM. 

MODERATE RAIN MAY AGAIN MOVE INTO MIDLAND COUNTY AGAIN TONIGHT FURTHER
AGGRAVATING THE FLOODING SITUATION. SEVERAL MORE HOURS WILL BE NEEDED BEFORE 
THESE FLOODED WATERS HAVE TIME TO SUBSIDE. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT 
WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE FLOOD DANGERS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED 
AREAS.

LAT...LON 3207 10220 3171 10222 3170 10180 3207 10179

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 7:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland56 min
May 31, 7:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin66 min
May 31, 8:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward66 min
May 31, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson53 min
May 31, 8:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFDawson3 hr
May 31, 9:04 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFHoward3 hr
May 31, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson60 min
Jun 1, 2:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos63 min
Jun 1, 3:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster54 min
Jun 1, 3:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos3 hr
Jun 1, 4:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBrewster3 hr
Jun 1, 4:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos59 min
Jun 1, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFTerrell63 min
Jun 1, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines58 min
Jun 1, 6:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson, Martin66 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.