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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 2003, 9:39 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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, 9:39 PM CDT (02:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2003, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mitchell County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 326 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 040239 FFWMAF TXC335-040500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 939 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MITCHELL COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT * AT 934 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EXITING SOUTHEAST MITCHELL COUNTY. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN MITCHELL COUNTY BY 1000 PM AND WILL AFFECT AREAS THAT ALREADY RECEIVED VERY HEAVY RAINS EARLIER THIS EVENING. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... COLORADO CITY...CUTHBERT...LORAINE AND WESTBROOK 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. IF YOU ENCOUNTER A ROADWAY THAT IS COVERED WITH WATER...TURN AROUND AND TRY TO FIND AN ALTERNATE ROUTE. LAT...LON 3251 10115 3214 10117 3212 10067 3251 10071 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KMAF 040410 FFSMAF TXC335-040500- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1108 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR MITCHELL COUNTY UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT... A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DRIFT ACROSS MITCHELL COUNTY THROUGH MIDNIGHT. AT 1100 PM THE SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED FLOODING OF STERLING CITY HIGHWAY (HWY 163) AT BEALS CREEK AND ALSO FLOODING ON FM 1229 AND FM 1808 BOTH NORTHEAST OF COLORADO CITY. PERSONS TRAVELING AT NIGHT NEED TO BE AWARE OF THIS FLOOD DANGER. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3214 10114 3217 10073 3247 10071 3247 10116 $$
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, 8:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Scurry | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson | 55 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.