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Flash Flood Warning 74, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 7, 2003, 10:08 PM CDT for Dawson 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
- Sep 7, 2003, 10:08 PM CDT (03:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2003, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Dawson County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:08 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, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -247 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1701 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMAF 080308
FFWMAF
TXC115-080600-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1008 PM CDT SUN SEP 7 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
DAWSON COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 100 AM CDT
* AT 1003 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS
PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS MUCH OF DAWSON COUNTY...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. AT 1000 PM CDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED WATER COVERING
THE ROAD ON FM 178 NORTH OF HANCOCK.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
ACKERLY...ARVANA...GRANDVIEW...HANCOCK...KEY...MIDWAY...SPARENBERG...
AND WELCH
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.
LAT...LON 3251 10167 3252 10219 3274 10221 3297 10219
3297 10168
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KMAF 080515
FFSMAF
TXC115-080600-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1215 AM CDT MON SEP 8 2003
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR DAWSON COUNTY UNTIL 100 AM
CDT...
AT MIDNIGHT CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED WATER COVERING U.S. HIGHWAY
180 NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF SAND IN WESTERN DAWSON COUNTY.
AT 1213 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
DETECT THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS SOUTHERN AND
WESTERN DAWSON COUNTY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINS TONIGHT WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE FLOODING ACROSS
PARTS OF DAWSON COUNTY...ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL INUNDATE ROADS AND FARM AND RANCH LAND. DO NOT
DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOWING WATER
IN A CAR OR ON FOOT.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE
FLOOD DANGERS.
LAT...LON 3251 10167 3252 10219 3274 10221 3297 10219
3297 10168
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 46 min |
| Sep 7, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 62 min |
| Sep 7, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 30 min |
| Sep 7, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 60 min |
| Sep 7, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 55 min |
| Sep 7, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 58 min |
| Sep 8, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 55 min |
| Sep 8, 1:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews, Martin | 29 min |
| Sep 8, 2:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Martin | 45 min |
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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.