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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 13, 2003Howard County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2003, 3:20 PM CDT for Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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, 3:20 PM CDT (20:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2003, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 4 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), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 80 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 132020
FFWMAF
TXC227-140015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 317 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS
  PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 2 MILES SOUTH OF BIG SPRING...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES 2 INCHES
  OF RAIN FELL IN LESS THAN 30 MINUTES WITH MORE HEAVY RAINFALL
  EXPECTED.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  BIG SPRING...COAHOMA...ELBOW...FAIRVIEW...KNOTT...LOMAX...LUTHER...
  SAND SPRINGS...SOUTH HAVEN...VEALMOOR AND VINCENT

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

LAT...LON 3252 10170 3209 10169 3210 10118 3251 10118

$$  

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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, 2:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Glasscock	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, 3:45 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

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2003 Every 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.