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Flash Flood Warning 76, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 10, 2003, 6:28 PM CDT for Terrell 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 10, 2003, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 2003, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Terrell County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1071 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1162 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMAF 102330
FFWMAF
TXC443-110230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
628 PM CDT WED SEP 10 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
TERRELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 930 PM CDT
* AT 628 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
WAS OCCURRING OVER NORTHERN TERRELL COUNTY...OR ABOUT 26 MILES
NORTHEAST OF SANDERSON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
AREAS AFFECTED INCLUDE RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN TERRELL COUNTY...
GENERALLY ALONG RANCH ROAD 2400 FROM THE TERRELL/PECOS COUNTY LINE
EAST TO THE JUNCTION WITH STATE HIGHWAY 349.
DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES.
LAT...LON 3054 10237 3024 10236 3031 10187 3066 10193
3066 10214 3060 10214
$$1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KMAF 110101 FFSMAF TXC443-110230- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 759 PM CDT WED SEP 10 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR TERRELL COUNTY UNTIL 930 PM CDT... THUNDERSTORMS THAT PRODUCED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER NORTHERN TERRELL COUNTY HAVE MOVED SOUTHEAST AND HAVE WEAKENED. HOWEVER... RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL MAY CREATE FLASH FLOODING OF ARROYOS... DRAWS...AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS...PARTICULARLY ALONG RANCH ROAD 2400 FROM THE PECOS/TERRELL COUNTY LINE EAST TO THE INTERSECTION WITH STATE HIGHWAY 349. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3046 10236 3032 10236 3029 10181 3062 10191 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 54 min |
| Sep 10, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 64 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.