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Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 20, 2003Jeff Davis County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 2003, 7:54 PM CDT for Jeff Davis 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 20, 2003, 7:54 PM CDT (00:54 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2003, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jeff Davis County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 222 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 222 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2003-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 519 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2003-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -31 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
519 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2514 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 210054
FFWMAF
TXC243-210400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
754 PM CDT FRI JUN 20 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  JEFF DAVIS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 753 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS
  PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 5 MILES EAST OF FORT DAVIS...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. RADAR AND A STORM SPOTTER NEAR
  FORT DAVIS ESTIMATED RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES HAD
  FALLEN WITHIN AN HOUR.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  FORT DAVIS

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

LAT...LON 3049 10425 3041 10381 3068 10346 3085 10372

$$  

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines45 min
Jun 20, 8:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster, Jeff Davis72 min
Jun 20, 8:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFGaines3 hr
Jun 20, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines38 min
Jun 20, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPresidio52 min
Jun 20, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines49 min
Jun 20, 9:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster78 min
Jun 20, 10:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBrewster3 hr
Jun 20, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster77 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2003Every 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.