Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 77, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 13, 2003, 11:43 PM CDT for Reagan County, Upton 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 13, 2003, 11:43 PM CDT (04:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2003, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Reagan County, TX, Upton County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:47 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, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3938 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 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 140447
FFWMAF
TXC383-461-140745-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1143 PM CDT SAT SEP 13 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHEAST UPTON COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS
NORTHERN REAGAN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 245 AM CDT
* AT 1143 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS
PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER MIDKIFF AND THE NORTH REAGAN
FIRE STATION. DOPPLER RADAR HAD ESTIMATED BETWEEN 1 TO 3 INCHES
OF RAIN HAD FALLEN SINCE 1045 PM CDT ALONG FARM TO MARKET ROAD
1357...3 MILES WEST OF THE NORTH REAGAN FIRE STATION. SLOW
MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...
RESULTING IN FLASH FLOODING.
DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES.
LAT...LON 3143 10187 3142 10133 3164 10136 3163 10203
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WGUS74 KMAF 140554
FFSMAF
TXC383-461-140745-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1250 AM CDT SUN SEP 14 2003
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR NORTHEASTERN UPTON AND
NORTHERN REAGAN COUNTIES UNTIL 245 AM CDT...
AT 1240 AM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED WATER RUNNING OVER
FARM TO MARKET 2401 IN SEVERAL LOCATIONS EAST OF MIDKIFF. AT 1250 AM
CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECT
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF MIDKIFF TO 1 MILE EAST OF STILES...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO
ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE OVER A FLOODED ROAD. THE
ROAD MAY BE WASHED OUT.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE
FLOOD DANGERS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS.
LAT...LON 3150 10185 3138 10174 3131 10131 3164 10130
3164 10184
$$000
WGUS74 KMAF 140643
FFSMAF
TXC383-461-140745-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
138 AM CDT SUN SEP 14 2003
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR NORTHEASTERN UPTON AND
NORTHERN REAGAN COUNTIES UNTIL 245 AM CDT...
AT 130 AM CDT LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED HIGHWAY 137 UNDER
WATER...20 MILES NORTH OF BIG LAKE.
AT 138 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
DETECT SLOW MOVING AND STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL...NEAR STILES AND ADJACENT ROUTE 137...AND FARM TO MARKET ROAD
1555 ALONG THE UPTON AND REAGAN COUNTY BORDER. THE STORMS WERE MOVING
SOUTH AT 15 MPH. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL AGGRAVATE THE FLASH FLOODING.
DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES.
LAT...LON 3164 10190 3129 10185 3130 10130 3161 10131
3164 10155 3164 10178
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 47 min |
| Sep 14, 1:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 53 min |
| Sep 14, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 29 min |
| Sep 14, 7:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 45 min |
| Sep 14, 7:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 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.