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Flash Flood Warning 56, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 29, 2003, 2:50 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. 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
- Aug 29, 2003, 2:50 PM MDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2003, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lea County, NM
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 514 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1739 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 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 292052 FFWMAF NMC025-292345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 250 PM MDT FRI AUG 29 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 545 PM MDT * AT 250 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF LEA COUNTY. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... BUCKEYE...CROSSROADS...GLADIOLA...HOBBS...HUMBLE CITY...KNOWLES... LOVINGTON...MCDONALD AND TATUM DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3271 10379 3265 10307 3352 10308 3353 10368 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KMAF 292230 FFSMAF NMC025-292345- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 430 PM MDT FRI AUG 29 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR NORTHERN LEA COUNTY UNTIL 545 PM MDT... AT 429 PM MDT...THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IN HOBBS REPORTED WIDESPREAD FLOODING IN HOBBS WITH PEOLPE STRANDED IN THEIR VEHICLES. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER HOBBS. THIS STORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH...HOWEVER ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE OVER A FLOODED ROAD. THE ROAD MAY BE WASHED OUT. LAT...LON 3268 10375 3266 10307 3353 10307 3352 10368 $$
000 WGUS74 KMAF 292349 FFSMAF NMC025-300045- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 546 PM MDT FRI AUG 29 2003 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHERN LEA COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 545 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL HAD DIMINISHED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. HOWEVER... SOME MINOR FLOODING WILL CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3263 10377 3262 10309 3355 10309 3353 10367 $$
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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.