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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 31, 2003, 9:04 PM CDT for Howard 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, 9:04 PM CDT (02:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2003, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Howard County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:04 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 83 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMAF 010205
FFWMAF
TXC227-010500-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
904 PM CDT SAT MAY 31 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
HOWARD COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS
* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
* AT 904 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS
PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 4 MILES SOUTH OF LUTHER...OR ABOUT 10
MILES NORTH OF BIG SPRING...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
LUTHER AND VINCENT
DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES.
LAT...LON 3241 10159 3217 10160 3229 10129 3249 10119
3249 10162
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KMAF 010432
FFSMAF
TXC115-227-010615-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1130 PM CDT SAT MAY 31 2003
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR CENTRAL DAWSON AND HOWARD
COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT...
AT 1130 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
DETECT HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING ACROSS DAWSON COUNTY...MOST RAIN HAS
GENERALLY ENDED ACROSS HOWARD COUNTY. HEAVY RAINS ACROSS THESE
COUNTIES RESULTED IN AREAS OF FLOODING EARLIER...AND EVEN THOUGH THE
HEAVY RAIN ARE COMING TO AN END IT WILL STILL TAKE SEVERAL MORE
HOURS FOR FLOOD WATERS TO SUBSIDE ACROSS DAWSON AND HOWARD COUNTIES.
TRAVELERS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION...DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED
ROADWAYS AS IT HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGER OF FLASH FLOODING AT
NIGHT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.
LAT...LON 3294 10174 3251 10144 3251 10119 3210 10118
3209 10168 3251 10167 3254 10148 3286 10174
3259 10173 3261 10210 3294 10212
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 7:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 3 hr |
| May 31, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 56 min |
| May 31, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 66 min |
| May 31, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 66 min |
| May 31, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 53 min |
| May 31, 8:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson | 3 hr |
| May 31, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 60 min |
| Jun 1, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 63 min |
| Jun 1, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 54 min |
| Jun 1, 3:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 4:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 59 min |
| Jun 1, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 63 min |
| Jun 1, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 58 min |
| Jun 1, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson, Martin | 66 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2003Every 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.