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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 2003, 7:46 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
- Jun 3, 2003, 7:46 PM CDT (00:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2003, 10:45 PM 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), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:46 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 327 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
- 919 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 433 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 6.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMAF 040046 FFWMAF TXC227-040345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 746 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HOWARD COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 741 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS MUCH OF EASTERN HOWARD COUNTY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES HAVE FALLEN IN THESE AREAS...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS BETWEEN VINCENT AND LUTHER. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... VINCENT...COAHOMA...SAND SPRINGS...FORSAN...INTERSTATE 20 THROUGH EASTERN HOWARD COUNTY. MOTORISTS WILL ENCOUNTER RAPIDLY RISING WATER IN UNDERPASSES... INTERSECTIONS AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE FLOOD DANGERS. LAT...LON 3249 10146 3212 10147 3210 10119 3251 10120LAT...LON 3249 10146 3212 10147 3210 10119 3251 10120 $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KMAF 040130 FFSMAF TXC227-040345- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 829 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR EASTERN HOWARD COUNTY UNTIL 1045 PM CDT... ...AT 750 PM...A SPOTTER REPORTED FLOODING OVER ACCESS ROADS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS 8 MILES EAST OF BIG SPRING... ...AT 752 PM...A SPOTTER REPORTED 1 FOOT OF WATER OVER FM 846 EXTENDING FROM 3 TO 8 MILES WEST OF VINCENT... AT 824 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECT THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF BIG SPRING...TO COAHOMA...TO FORSAN. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS SOUTH AT 10 MPH. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS WHEN DRIVING AT NIGHT. IF WATER COVERS THE ROAD...TURN AROUND AND TRY TO FIND AN ALTERNATE ROUTE. LAT...LON 3229 10156 3210 10151 3211 10119 3252 10121 $$
000 WGUS74 KMAF 040327 FFSMAF TXC227-040345- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1023 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR HOWARD COUNTY UNTIL 1045 PM CDT... AT 1023 PM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS CONTINUED TO REPORT FLOODING THROUGHOUT HOWARD COUNTY...ESPECIALLY NEAR COAHOMA AND SAND SPRINGS. ALTHOUGH THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAS COME TO AN END...RADAR ESTIMATES THAT UP TO 4 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS FALLEN IN EASTERN PARTS OF THE COUNTY...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS WILL CONTINUE. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. 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 3210 10118 3209 10168 3251 10167 3251 10119 $$
000 WGUS74 KMAF 040351 FFSMAF TXC227-040545- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1050 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2003 ...A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION CONTINUES IN HOWARD COUNTY DUE TO EARLIER FLASH FLOODING... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS ENDING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...BUT THE FLOOD THREAT WILL DIMINISH VERY SLOWLY. A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION REMAINS...ESPECIALLY IN COAHOMA AND SAND SPRINGS WHERE EARLIER FLASH FLOODING RESULTED IN EVACUATIONS AND FLOODED HOMES. THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE SINCE THE IMMINENT THREAT FROM ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN AND FLASH FLOODING HAS SUBSIDED. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE FLOOD DANGERS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS. LAT...LON 3251 10168 3210 10168 3210 10118 3251 10119 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 49 min |
| Jun 3, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 60 min |
| Jun 3, 7:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 60 min |
| Jun 3, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 58 min |
| Jun 3, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 45 min |
| Jun 3, 8:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Scurry | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 9:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson | 55 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.