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Flash Flood Warning 63, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 30, 2003Ector County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 30, 2003, 8:54 PM CDT for Ector 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 30, 2003, 8:54 PM CDT (01:54 UTC)
Expired: Aug 31, 2003, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ector County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:54 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 39 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 378 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1323 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 310156
FFWMAF
TXC135-310500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
854 PM CDT SAT AUG 30 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ECTOR COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT

* AT 854 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH  
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE OCCURRING OVER ODESSA...MOVING SOUTH      
  AT 15 MPH.  ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WERE 
  MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ECTOR COUNTY. 

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  GARDENDALE...GOLDSMITH...NORTH COWDEN...ODESSA...PENWELL AND WEST
  ODESSA

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 3169 10276 3169 10234 3206 10233 3204 10274

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KMAF 310251
FFSMAF
TXC135-310500-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
946 PM CDT SAT AUG 30 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR ECTOR COUNTY UNTIL 1200 AM
CDT...

AT 925 PM CDT...THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IN ODESSA REPORTED FLOODING OF 
SEVERAL STREETS IN ODESSA. WATER COVERED UNIVERSITY ROAD FROM FARM 
TO MARKET 1936 TO REDONDO...AT THE INTERSECTION OF 16TH AND 
MOSS...AT THE INTERSECTION OF 16TH AND KNOX...AND BAD FLOODING AT 
THE INTERSECTION OF PLANET AND UNIVERSITY.   

AT 946 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
DETECT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER ODESSA AND MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. 
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ALSO WERE MOVING SOUTH 
AT 15 MPH OVER SOUTHERN ECTOR COUNTY ALONG FARM TO MARKET 1601 TO 
THE SOUTH OF PENWELL.

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 3168 10277 3169 10233 3205 10232 3203 10274

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 30, 9:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Crane, Ward	3 hr
Aug 30, 10:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	3 hr
Aug 30, 11:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Midland	3 hr
Aug 30, 11:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Borden	3 hr
Aug 30, 11:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Ector	3 hr
Aug 30, 11:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Brewster	3 hr
Aug 31, 1:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	5 hr
Aug 31, 1:27 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Mitchell	3 hr
Aug 31, 2:44 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Brewster	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2003 Every 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.