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Flash Flood Warning 57, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 29, 2003Borden County, Scurry County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 29, 2003, 6:30 PM CDT for Borden County, Scurry 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
Aug 29, 2003, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired
Aug 29, 2003, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Borden County, TX, Scurry County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 126 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 12:00Z on 2003-08-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 514 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-08-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 129 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 292334
FFWMAF
TXC033-415-300230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
630 PM CDT FRI AUG 29 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SCURRY COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS
  BORDEN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 630 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED NUMEROUS...SLOW
  MOVING THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS 
  THE REGION. RADAR HAD ESTIMATED BETWEEN 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN
  HAD FALLEN SINCE 530 PM CDT AT LAKE J.B. THOMAS.

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.

LAT...LON 3294 10167 3255 10167 3255 10070 3293 10071

$$
3 follow-up statements
000 
WGUS74 KMAF 300043
FFSMAF
TXC415-300230-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
742 PM CDT FRI AUG 29 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR SCURRY COUNTY UNTIL 930 PM
CDT...

AT 731 PM CDT...A SPOTTER 1 MILE NORTH OF SNYDER ALONG HIGHWAY U.S.
HIGHWAY 84 REPORTED WATER OVER THE ROADS AND BAR DITCHES OVERFLOWING.

AT 730 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
DETECT NUMEROUS SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING TORRENTIAL 
RAINFALL ACROSS THE COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE 
OCCURRING IN THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY NEAR
DUNN AND ADJACENT FARM TO MARKET ROAD 1606. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
WERE NEAR HERMLEIGH AND ADJACENT HIGHWAY 84. 

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL LIKELY RESULT IN ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING.

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

LAT...LON 3254 10116 3254 10085 3254 10067 3271 10070
          3295 10067 3293 10115 3272 10116

$$
000 
WGUS74 KMAF 300132
FFSMAF
TXC033-300230-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
831 PM CDT FRI AUG 29 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR BORDEN COUNTY UNTIL 930 PM
CDT...

AT 831 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
DETECT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 13 MILES SOUTH OF GAIL. THESE STORMS 
PRODUCING OVER 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL PER HOUR WERE MOVING NORTHEAST 
AT 15 MPH.

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

LAT...LON 3255 10168 3253 10139 3267 10121 3291 10124
          3291 10157

$$
000 
WGUS74 KMAF 300219
FFSMAF
TXC415-300230-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
915 PM CDT FRI AUG 29 2003

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SCURRY COUNTY IS BEING ALLOWED TO
   EXPIRE AT 930 PM CDT...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAD 
DIMINISHED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS 
DIMINISHING. HOWEVER...SOME MINOR FLOODING WILL CONTINUE AS LIGHT TO
MODERATE RAIN CONTINUES ACROSS THE COUNTY THROUGH MIDNIGHT...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 3254 10116 3254 10086 3253 10068 3293 10068
          3293 10117

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 29, 6:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFMidland3 hr

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.