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Flash Flood Warning 80, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 25, 2003, 12:35 PM CDT for Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 115 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 25, 2003, 12:35 PM CDT (17:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2003, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Howard County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:38 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 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 1215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 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 251735
FFWMAF
TXC227-251930-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1235 PM CDT THU SEP 25 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
HOWARD COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 230 PM CDT
* AT 1234 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING 4 MILES WEST OF SAND SPRINGS...OR ABOUT 5
MILES NORTHEAST OF BIG SPRING...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. MORE
THAN 2 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN ARE ESTIMATED TO HAVE FALLEN OVER PARTS OF
BIG SPRING RESULTING IN FLOODED ROADWAYS AND STALLED CARS.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
BIG SPRING...COAHOMA...FAIRVIEW...LUTHER...SAND SPRINGS AND VINCENT
DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES.
LAT...LON 3214 10140 3232 10159 3251 10142 3251 10119
3231 10119
$$
051 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KMAF 251929 FFSMAF TXC227-252030- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 224 PM CDT THU SEP 25 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR HOWARD COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... AT 225 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS ENDING ACROSS HOWARD COUNTY...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER...DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINFALL EXPERIENCED EARLIER IN THE COMMUNITY OF BIG SPRING AND SURROUNDING LOCATIONS...FLOOD WATERS WILL BE SLOW TO RECEDE. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3213 10167 3213 10120 3250 10121 3249 10164 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 10:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 3 hr |
| Sep 25, 1:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reagan | 3 hr |
| Sep 25, 1:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 2 hr |
| Sep 25, 3:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 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.