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Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 2003, 3:30 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 26, 2003, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2003, 6:30 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), 218 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 1017 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1083 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMAF 262032
FFWMAF
TXC243-262330-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
330 PM CDT THU JUN 26 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
JEFF DAVIS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 630 PM CDT
* AT 330 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS
PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER EXTREME NORTHERN JEFF DAVIS
COUNTY...OR ABOUT 33 MILES NORTH OF FORT DAVIS...MOVING WEST AT 10
MPH.
DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL INUNDATE ROADS AND FARM AND RANCH LAND. DO NOT
DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOWING WATER
IN A CAR OR ON FOOT.
FLOODING IN MOUNTAINOUS AREAS IS ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. HEAVY
RAINFALL...EVEN IN THE DISTANT...CAN CREATE SUDDEN FLOWS CAPABLE OF
OVERTAKING CAMPERS AND HIKERS. SEEK HIGHER GROUND NOW
LAT...LON 3083 10412 3084 10414 3087 10452 3100 10428
3110 10410 3080 10365
$$1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KMAF 262221 FFSMAF TXC243-262315- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 521 PM CDT THU JUN 26 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR JEFF DAVIS COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS ENDING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING CANCELED. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3086 10456 3084 10416 3080 10369 3108 10410 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 9:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Upton | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 77 min |
| Jun 26, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 80 min |
| Jun 26, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 73 min |
| Jun 26, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 61 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.