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Flash Flood Warning 67, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 30, 2003, 11:27 PM CDT for Borden 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, 11:27 PM CDT (04:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2003, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Borden County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 108 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 310429 FFWMAF TXC033-310730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1127 PM CDT SAT AUG 30 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BORDEN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 230 AM CDT * AT 1127 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE OCCURRING 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GAIL. LITTLE TO NO MOVEMENT WAS DETECTED WITH THESE STORMS. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... GAIL...LAKE J.B. THOMAS AND MESQUITE DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3254 10166 3254 10120 3294 10120 3294 10166 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KMAF 310638 FFSMAF TXC033-310730- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 133 AM CDT SUN AUG 31 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR BORDEN COUNTY UNTIL 230 AM CDT... THE BORDEN COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE INDICATED FLOODING THAT HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN REPORTED ALONG FARM TO MARKET 1054 WAS RECEDING. LOCALIZED FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS WILL STILL REMAIN A HAZARD THROUGH 230 AM CDT. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE FLOOD DANGERS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS. LAT...LON 3256 10166 3255 10124 3292 10122 3291 10160 $$
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, 11:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 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
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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.