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Flash Flood Warning 75, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 8, 2003, 8:36 PM CDT for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 84 min. 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 8, 2003, 8:36 PM CDT (01:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 84 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Midland County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:38 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 28 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
- 880 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2375 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMAF 090139 FFWMAF TXC329-090300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 836 PM CDT MON SEP 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MIDLAND COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 836 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN MIDLAND COUNTY...OR ABOUT 23 MILES SOUTH OF MIDLAND...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED 5 INCHES OF WATER OVER THE ROAD NEAR COUNTY ROAD 270. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... HIGHWAY 349 IN SOUTHERN MIDLAND COUNTY. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. 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. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS. LAT...LON 3183 10214 3166 10213 3166 10178 3184 10179 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KMAF 090236 FFSMAF TXC329-090300- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 930 PM CDT MON SEP 8 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR SOUTHERN MIDLAND COUNTY UNTIL 1000 PM CDT... AT 925 PM CDT...THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY REPORTED WATER COVERING HIGHWAY 349 APPROXIMATELY 15 MILES SOUTH OF MIDLAND. THE ROAD WAS IMPASSABLE. ALTHOUGH THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAS COME TO AN END...FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS WILL CONTINUE. MOTORISTS WILL ENCOUNTER RAPIDLY RISING WATER IN UNDERPASSES... INTERSECTIONS AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE FLOOD DANGERS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS. LAT...LON 3187 10220 3166 10220 3166 10179 3190 10179 $$
000 WGUS74 KMAF 090300 FFSMAF TXC329-090400- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 957 PM CDT MON SEP 8 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MIDLAND COUNTY IS BEING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS ENDING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS SLOWLY DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. 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 3188 10222 3167 10223 3167 10179 3190 10178 $$
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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.