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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 13, 2003Glasscock County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2003, 2:26 PM CDT for Glasscock 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 13, 2003, 2:26 PM CDT (19:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2003, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Glasscock County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:25 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 70 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1071 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -199 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2165 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 131926
FFWMAF
TXC173-132230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
226 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GLASSCOCK COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 224 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS
  PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF BIGBY CORNER...
  OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  BIGBY CORNER...GARDEN CITY AND ST. LAWRENCE

FLOODING IS POSSIBLE ALONG HIGHWAYS 137 AND 158. RAPID INUNDATION
OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS IN THE PATH OF THIS
IS LIKELY. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER 
GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE OVER A 
FLOODED ROAD. THE ROAD MAY BE WASHED OUT.

LAT...LON 3168 10128 3167 10175 3199 10177 3209 10127

$$  

05

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS74 KMAF 132138
FFSMAF
TXC173-132230-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
434 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR GLASSCOCK COUNTY UNTIL 530 PM
CDT...

AT 434 PM CDT...A SPOTTER REPORTED THE INTERSECTION OF FARM TO 
MARKET ROAD 1357 AND HIGHWAY 160 WAS COVERED WITH WATER AND WAS 
IMPASSABLE. ADDITIONAL STORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE 
EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO SOUTHERN GLASSCOCK COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE 
SLOW MOVING AND MAY PRODUCE ADDITIOINAL FLASH FLOODING

DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES.

LAT...LON 3167 10177 3166 10128 3208 10128 3208 10176

$$

000 
WGUS74 KMAF 132230
FFSMAF
TXC173-329-132245-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
530 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003

...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS HAVE EXPIRED FOR MIDLAND AND GLASSCOCK COUNTIES...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS ENDING
ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME
MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS ARE BEING 
ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

LAT...LON 3206 10222 3167 10222 3166 10128 3207 10130

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 9:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	42 min
Jun 13, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	48 min
Jun 13, 2:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Mitchell	3 hr
Jun 13, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	53 min
Jun 13, 2:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Midland	3 hr
Jun 13, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	61 min
Jun 13, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	59 min
Jun 13, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	37 min
Jun 13, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	64 min
Jun 13, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	63 min
Jun 13, 3:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Howard	4 hr
Jun 13, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	60 min
Jun 13, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	33 min
Jun 13, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	56 min
Jun 13, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	31 min
Jun 13, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	57 min
Jun 13, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	80 min
Jun 13, 4:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Martin	2 hr
Jun 13, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	52 min
Jun 13, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	42 min
Jun 13, 5:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Gaines	52 min
Jun 13, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	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.