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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 2003, 8:08 PM CDT for Scurry 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, 8:08 PM CDT (01:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2003, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Scurry County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 293 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 040108 FFWMAF TXC415-040415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 808 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SCURRY COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 1115 PM CDT * AT 808 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING FROM THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SOUTHEAST THROUGH SCURRY COUNTY AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... ARAH...DERMOTT...DUNN...FLUVANNA...HERMLEIGH...HUDD...INADALE... IRA...KNAPP...RANDALLS CORNER...SNYDER...UNION AND THE MIDWAY COMMUNITY 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 3253 10067 3252 10117 3293 10116 3295 10066 $$
1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KMAF 040342
FFSMAF
TXC415-040415-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1040 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2003
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR CENTRAL SCURRY COUNTY UNTIL
1115 PM CDT...
THE STORMS THAT WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE MOVING OUT OF THE
COUNTY AND THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER...PERSONS
TRAVELING AT NIGHT SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE DANGERS OF LOW WATER
CROSSINGS...ESPECIALLY ON FM 1610...FM1289...AND FM 2085 NEAR KNAP
IN SOUTHWEST SCURRY COUNTY WHICH MAY TAKE A FEW MORE HOURS TO COMPLETE
DRAIN.
DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES.
LAT...LON 3283 10108 3255 10105 3256 10075 3255 10070
3291 10079
$$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, 7:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 45 min |
| 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.