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Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 29, 2003, 7:58 PM CDT for Martin 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, 7:58 PM CDT (00:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 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 Martin County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:59 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 714 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2409 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMAF 300102
FFWMAF
TXC371-461-300400-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
758 PM CDT FRI AUG 29 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
UPTON COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
* AT 758 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED SLOW MOVING
THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG HIGHWAY
67...FROM 7 MILES EAST OF FORT STOCKTON NORTHEAST TO GIRVIN...
MCCAMEY AND RANKIN. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT
5 MPH.
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 3099 10284 3073 10249 3082 10211 3107 10203
3113 10180 3159 10180 3162 10215 3161 10229
3106 10229 3107 10238 3113 10248 3119 10261
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KMAF 300357
FFSMAF
TXC317-300400-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1057 PM CDT FRI AUG 29 2003
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MARTIN COUNTY IS BEING ALLOWED TO
EXPIRE...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS ENDING
ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME
MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING IS
ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES.
LAT...LON 3211 10220 3211 10189 3212 10172 3251 10173
3250 10219
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 7:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos, Upton | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 10:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Reagan | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 10:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard, Mitchell | 3 hr |
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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.