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Flash Flood Warning 66, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 30, 2003Midland County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 30, 2003, 11:16 PM CDT for Midland 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, 11:16 PM CDT (04:16 UTC)
Expired
Aug 31, 2003, 2:15 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Midland County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:17 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 18 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 00:00Z on 2003-08-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 378 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 00:00Z on 2003-08-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 310420
FFWMAF
TXC329-310715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1116 PM CDT SAT AUG 30 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 215 AM CDT

* AT 1116 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS     
  PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE OCCURRING OVER MIDLAND          
  INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AND OVER THE CITY OF MIDLAND.                
  ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING EASTWARD TOWARD           
  GREENWOOD. LITTLE TO NO MOVEMENT WAS DETECTED WITH THESE STORMS.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  COTTON FLAT...GREENWOOD...MIDLAND...MIDLAND INTERNATIONAL          
  AIRPORT...SPRABERRY...VALLEY VIEW...AND WARFIELD

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

LAT...LON 3169 10224 3170 10181 3206 10180 3207 10223

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS74 KMAF 310554
FFSMAF
TXC329-310715-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1254 AM CDT SUN AUG 31 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR MIDLAND COUNTY UNTIL 215 AM
CDT...

...AT 1215 AM CDT...A VEHICLE WAS REPORTED STALLED ON A SERVICE ROAD 
OFF WALL STREET IN MIDLAND...

...AT 1213 AM CDT...THOMASON ROAD WAS REPORTED TO BE UNDER 3-4 
INCHES OF WATER...AND 1 FOOT DEEP AT THE INTERSECTIONS... 

AT 1249 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
THAT THE RAINFALL WAS DECREASING IN INTENSITY OVER MIDLAND COUNTY. 
ALTHOUGH THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAS COME TO AN END...RUNOFF INTO LOW 
LYING AREAS WILL STILL PRODUCE FLOODING ACROSS MIDLAND.

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.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE 
FLOOD DANGERS. 

LAT...LON 3164 10230 3208 10230 3210 10203 3208 10177
          3166 10175

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 30, 8:54 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEctor3 hr
Aug 30, 9:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFCrane, Ward3 hr
Aug 30, 10:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos3 hr
Aug 30, 11:27 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBorden3 hr
Aug 30, 11:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEctor3 hr
Aug 30, 11:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBrewster3 hr
Aug 31, 1:18 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos5 hr
Aug 31, 1:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFMitchell3 hr
Aug 31, 2:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBrewster3 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.