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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 5, 2003, 11:25 PM CDT for Gaines 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 5, 2003, 11:25 PM CDT (04:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2003, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gaines County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 887 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1861 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMAF 060425 FFWMAF TXC165-060730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1125 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... GAINES COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 230 AM CDT * AT 1125 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PAYNES CORNER...OR ABOUT 6 MILES WEST OF SEMINOLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... PAYNES CORNER...SEMINOLE AND THE FAIRVIEW COMMUNITY DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3288 10300 3254 10291 3255 10226 3290 10234 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KMAF 060502 FFSMAF TXC165-060830- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1200 AM CDT FRI JUN 6 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR EASTERN GAINES COUNTY UNTIL 230 AM CDT... AT MIDNIGHT CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS MOVING INTO THE SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF GAINES COUNTY. FLASH FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN SEMIOLE ON HWY 285 AND 5TH STREET. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3274 10278 3255 10278 3254 10226 3294 10226 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving, Reeves | 58 min |
| Jun 5, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 62 min |
| Jun 5, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 74 min |
| Jun 5, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 53 min |
| Jun 5, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 56 min |
| Jun 6, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 50 min |
| Jun 6, 12:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 12:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 58 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.