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Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2003, 4:45 PM CDT for Martin 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 13, 2003, 4:45 PM CDT (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2003, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Martin County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 32 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMAF 132145 FFWMAF TXC317-132345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 445 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MARTIN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 444 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COURTNEY...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF MIDLAND...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATES 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN JUST EAST OF HIGHWAY 349 IN SOUTHERN MARTIN COUNTY. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... COURTNEY LAT...LON 3226 10216 3223 10187 3211 10170 3210 10220 $$ 05
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, 3:20 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, 4:53 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.