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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 24, 2003Glasscock County, Midland County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 2003, 5:22 PM CDT for Glasscock County, Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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: May 24, 2003, 5:22 PM CDT (22:22 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2003, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Glasscock County, TX, Midland County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 36 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: 1061 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -280 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1372 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 242224
FFWMAF
TXC173-329-250215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
522 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 522 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
  WITHIN A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM MIDLAND TO SPRABERRY TO 
  TO GARDEN CIT.  THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  BIGBY CORNER...COTTON FLAT...GARDEN CITY...GREENWOOD...LEES...
  MIDLAND...SPRABERRY AND VALLEY VIEW

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

LAT...LON 3205 10218 3170 10217 3169 10130 3208 10130

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS74 KMAF 250010
FFSMAF
TXC173-329-250215-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
710 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 2003

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MIDLAND AND GLASSCOCK
   COUNTIES UNTIL 915 PM CDT...

AT 629 PM CDT...A SPOTTER REPORTED WATER OVER FARM TO MARKET ROAD
1379...6 MILES SOUTH OF SPRABERRY. THE SPOTTER ALSO REPORTED BAR 
DITCHES FULL ALONG THE LENGTH OF THE ROAD. AT 705 PM ANOTHER SPOTTER
REPORTED WATER OVER COUNTY ROAD 1160...10 MILES NORTH OF FARM TO MARKET 
1379. 

AT 7 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR HAD INDICATED 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAD 
FALLEN ALONG HIGHWAY 158 IN THE VICINITY OF SPRABERRY SINCE THE
PRECIPITATION BEGAN. AT 7 PM DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE 
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS GLASSCOCK AND MIDLAND COUNTIES. 
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL LIKELY RESULT IN ADDITIONAL FLOODING.

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

LAT...LON 3169 10228 3167 10129 3207 10128 3208 10228
          3192 10226

$$

000 
WGUS74 KMAF 250204
FFSMAF
TXC135-173-329-250245-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
904 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 2003

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR MIDLAND AND GLASSCOCK COUNTIES 
UNTIL 915 PM CDT...

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR ECTOR COUNTY UNTIL 1100 PM 
CDT...

AT 851 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
DETECT AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS FROM NEAR 
GARDENDALE IN NORTHERN ECTOR COUNTY...TO ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF 
MIDLAND IN SOUTHEAST MIDLAND COUNTY.

ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WILL MOVE INTO ECTOR AND 
MIDLAND COUNTIES FROM SOUTHERN ANDREWS AND MARTIN COUNTIES THROUGH 
915 PM CDT. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN WILL BE LIKELY 
WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. 

FLOODING OF URBAN AND LOW LYING AREAS...AS WELL AS AREA ROADS WILL 
BE LIKELY...PARTICULARY IN ECTOR AND MIDLAND COUNTIES. ADDITIONAL 
RAINFALL ENTERING THE COUNTIES FROM THE NORTH WILL LIKELY CONTRIBUTE 
TO ADDITIONAL FLOODING PROBLEMS. 

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 3205 10276 3168 10276 3168 10135 3202 10131

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	55 min
May 24, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell, Scurry	65 min
May 24, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell, Scurry	41 min
May 24, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	59 min
May 24, 4:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	4 hr
May 24, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	33 min
May 24, 4:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Howard, Martin, Mitchell	4 hr
May 24, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	49 min
May 24, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	50 min
May 24, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	59 min
May 24, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	66 min
May 24, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	57 min
May 24, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	32 min
May 24, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	60 min
May 24, 5:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Scurry	4 hr
May 24, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	57 min

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.