Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 62, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 29, 2003, 10:18 PM CDT for Howard County, Mitchell 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, 10:18 PM CDT (03:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2003, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Howard County, TX, Mitchell County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:22 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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 300319 FFWMAF TXC227-335-300615- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1018 PM CDT FRI AUG 29 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HOWARD COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS MITCHELL COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 115 AM CDT * AT 1018 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING OVER MANY LOCATIONS IN HOWARD AND MITCHELL COUNTIES. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING RAINFALL OVER TWO INCHES PER HOUR WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH ACROSS THESE COUNTIES. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... BIG SPRING...COAHOMA...COLORADO CITY...CUTHBERT...ELBOW... FAIRVIEW...LORAINE...LUTHER...SAND SPRINGS...SOUTH HAVEN...VINCENT AND WESTBROOK DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE FLOOD DANGERS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS. LAT...LON 3248 10165 3213 10165 3212 10070 3250 10071 $$
1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KMAF 300459
FFSMAF
TXC173-227-335-383-300615-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1155 PM CDT FRI AUG 29 2003
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR HOWARD...MITCHELL...GLASSCOCK
AND REAGAN COUNTIES UNTIL 115 AM CDT...
AT 1115 PM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS IN HOWARD COUNTY IN THE
CITY OF BIG SPRING REPORTED STREET FLOODING WITH SOME STREETS IMPASSABLE.
IN ADDITION THE GLASSCOCK COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED WATER OVER THE ROAD
AT THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 137 AND HIGHWAY 158 AT 1140 PM CDT...
15 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY.
AT 1150 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A LARGE AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN...WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS
ACROSS HOWARD...MITCHELL AND GLASSCOCK COUNTIES. A FEW LOCATIONS
WILL RECEIVE AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAINFALL...WHICH WILL AGGRAVATE THE
FLASH FLOODING.
DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES.
LAT...LON 3113 10176 3113 10134 3209 10127 3211 10083
3213 10069 3248 10071 3250 10103 3250 10168
3223 10167 3212 10166 3204 10174
$$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 | Martin | 3 hr |
| 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 |
Nearby
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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.