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Flash Flood Warning 82, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 25, 2003, 1:22 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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 25, 2003, 1:22 PM CDT (18:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2003, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mitchell County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 124 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 251825 FFWMAF TXC383-252130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 122 PM CDT THU SEP 25 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... REAGAN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 122 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING 4 MILES SOUTH OF BIG LAKE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL REMAINS LIKELY ACROSS REAGAN COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... BEST...BIG LAKE...STILES AND TEXON MOTORISTS WILL ENCOUNTER RAPIDLY RISING WATER AT INTERSECTIONS AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE 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. LAT...LON 3116 10176 3112 10128 3160 10126 3162 10148 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KMAF 251934 FFSMAF TXC335-252030- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 233 PM CDT THU SEP 25 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR MITCHELL COUNTY UNTIL 330 PM CDT... AT 210 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED STREET FLOODING IN COLORADO CITY. AT 230 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL IN NORTHEAST MITCHELL COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. ALTHOUGH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAS MOVED NORTHEAST OF COLORADO CITY...FLOODING WILL BE SLOW TO RECEDE AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS WILL CONTINUE. ADDITIONAL FLOODING OF RURAL ROADS IN NORTHEAST MITCHELL COUNTY IS POSSIBLE. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3212 10115 3212 10072 3249 10070 3250 10114 $$
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, 12:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard | 115 min |
| Sep 25, 1:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reagan | 3 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.