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Flash Flood Warning 70, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 31, 2003, 1:18 AM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 5 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 31, 2003, 1:18 AM CDT (06:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2003, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pecos County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:20 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 136 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 310618
FFWMAF
TXC371-311100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
118 AM CDT SUN AUG 31 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 600 AM CDT
* AT 111 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
OCCURRING OVER MUCH OF PECOS COUNTY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
SIGNIFICANT FLOODING CONTINUES OVER PARTS OF PECOS COUNTY.
AT 1235 AM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED THAT WATER COVERED FM 1053
10 MILES NORTH OF FORT STOCKTON AND HIGHWAY 18...13 MILES NORTH OF FORT
STOCKTON. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO AGGRAVATE THE
FLOODING SITUATION.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
BAKERSFIELD...BELDING...COYANOSA...FORT STOCKTON...GIRVIN...
IMPERIAL...IRAAN...AND SHEFFIELD
NEVER ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS A FLOODED ROAD MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES.
IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO
ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. THE ROAD MAY BE WASHED OUT.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE
FLOOD DANGERS.
LAT...LON 3076 10358 3135 10305 3124 10247 3096 10184
3065 10181 3060 10236 3001 10254
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KMAF 310923
FFSMAF
TXC371-311100-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
423 AM CDT SUN AUG 31 2003
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR PECOS COUNTY UNTIL 600 AM
CDT...
...AT 345 AM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED HIGH WATER AT
THE INTERSECTION OF FM 1776 AND HIGHWAY 285 SOUTH OF COYANOSA...
AT 420 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THAT THE RAINFALL HAD DECREASED SIGNIFICANTLY ACROSS PECOS COUNTY.
HOWEVER...FLOODING REMAINS IMMINENT THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY AS RUNOFF
CONTINUES FROM EARLIER HEAVY RAINS. FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR
DRAINAGE AREAS WILL ALSO CONTINUE.
IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO
ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. NEVER ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS A FLOODED ROADS.
THE ROAD MAY BE WASHED OUT.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE
FLOOD DANGERS.
LAT...LON 3076 10358 3135 10305 3124 10247 3096 10184
3065 10181 3060 10236 3001 10254
$$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, 11:27 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, 1:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 2:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 3 hr |
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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.