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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2003, 3:40 PM CDT for Pecos 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
- Jun 1, 2003, 3:40 PM CDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2003, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pecos County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 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 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 1727 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1491 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMAF 012043 FFWMAF TXC371-012345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 340 PM CDT SUN JUN 1 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 340 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER WESTERN PECOS COUNTY...OR ABOUT 24 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT STOCKTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. FLOODING OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS IS LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS... PARTICULARLY ALONG PORTIONS OF U.S. HIGHWAY 385 SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON. 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...LON 3061 10312 3054 10308 3054 10290 3079 10285 $$
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, 9:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard | 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, 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 |
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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.