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Flash Flood Warning 71, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 31, 2003, 1:27 AM CDT for Mitchell 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 31, 2003, 1:27 AM CDT (06:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2003, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mitchell County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 310629 FFWMAF TXC335-310930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 127 AM CDT SUN AUG 31 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MITCHELL COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 430 AM CDT * AT 127 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING 11 MILES WEST OF COLORADO CITY...AND 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLORADO CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... COLORADO CITY...CUTHBERT...LORAINE AND WESTBROOK 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 3211 10115 3212 10069 3248 10070 3249 10114 $$
1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KMAF 310903
FFSMAF
TXC335-310915-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
403 AM CDT SUN AUG 31 2003
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MITCHELL COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELED...
AT 359 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE
RAINFALL HAD DECREASED SIGNIFICANTLY OVER MITCHELL COUNTY...AND THE
FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE IN
LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS
FLOODING IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED.
LAT...LON 3209 10118 3243 10117 3252 10119 3253 10084
3253 10065 3209 10066
$$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, 1:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 5 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.