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Flash Flood Warning 66, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 8:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
| 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, 11:27 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, 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.