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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 2003, 4:12 PM CDT for Pecos 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
- May 24, 2003, 4:12 PM CDT (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2003, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pecos County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 1061 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -280 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1372 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMAF 242112
FFWMAF
TXC371-250115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
412 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 815 PM CDT
* AT 409 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
WAS OCCURRING 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT STOCKTON...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
AREAS FROM IMPERIAL TO SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON AND ALONG HIGHWAY 285
FLASH FLOODING HAS BEEN 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.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL INUNDATE ROADS AND FARM AND RANCH LAND. NEVER
ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOWING WATER IN A CAR OR ON FOOT.
LAT...LON 3071 10326 3045 10285 3035 10248 3064 10238
3094 10225 3110 10245 3131 10268 3124 10284
3131 10302
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 55 min |
| May 24, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 65 min |
| May 24, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 41 min |
| May 24, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 59 min |
| May 24, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 33 min |
| May 24, 4:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard, Martin, Mitchell | 4 hr |
| May 24, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 49 min |
| May 24, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 50 min |
| May 24, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 59 min |
| May 24, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 66 min |
| May 24, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 57 min |
| May 24, 5:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 4 hr |
| May 24, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 32 min |
| May 24, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 60 min |
| May 24, 5:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Scurry | 4 hr |
| May 24, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 57 min |
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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.