Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 86, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 8, 2003, 8:35 PM CDT for Reagan County, Upton 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
- Oct 8, 2003, 8:35 PM CDT (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2003, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 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), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:37 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMAF 090135
FFWMAF
TXC383-461-090400-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
835 PM CDT WED OCT 8 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEAST UPTON COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS
REAGAN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
* AT 822 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAINFALL
OCCURRING OVER SOUTHEAST UPTON COUNTY AND OVER MOST OF REAGAN COUNTY.
RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE BETWEEN ONE AN TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN
ACROSS SOUTHEAST PARTS OF UPTON COUNTY. SIMILAR TOTALS WILL AFFECT REAGAN
COUNTY AS HEAVY RAINFALL PERSISTS THROUGH 10 PM. AREAS MOST LIKELY TO
EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE HIGHWAY 67 BETWEEN RANKIN AND BIG LAKE...
HIGHWAY 349 SOUTH OF RANKIN...AND STATE ROUTE 137 BETWEEN STILES AND BIG LAKE.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
BEST...BIG LAKE...NORTH REAGAN FIRE STATION...RANKIN...STILES AND
TEXON
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE
FLOOD DANGERS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS.
LAT...LON 3147 10177 3111 10209 3110 10128 3164 10129
3165 10177
$$1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KMAF 090236 FFSMAF TXC383-461-090400- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 936 PM CDT WED OCT 8 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR SOUTHEASTERN UPTON AND REAGAN COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 PM CDT... AT 920 PM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED HIGH WATER COVERING THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAYS 67 AND 137 AT BIG LAKE IN SOUTHERN REAGAN COUNTY. ALTHOUGH THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAS GENERALLY SUBSIDED ACROSS SOUTHEAST UPTON COUNTY...WITH UP TO ONE AND A HALF TO TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL OVER THE LAST TWO HOURS...RUN OFF FLASH FLOODING ALONG HIGHWAY 67 EAST OF RANKIN REMAINS POSSIBLE. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE FLOOD DANGERS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS. LAT...LON 3147 10177 3111 10209 3110 10128 3164 10129 3165 10177 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 12:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Terrell | 4 hr |
Nearby
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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.