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Flash Flood Warning 88, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 10, 2003Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 10, 2003, 5:38 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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 10, 2003, 5:38 PM CDT (22:38 UTC)
Expired: Oct 10, 2003, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 139 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 633 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 102243
FFWMAF
TXC371-110245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
538 PM CDT FRI OCT 10 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 538 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
  WAS OCCURRING 10 MILES EAST OF FORT STOCKTON...MOVING NORTHEAST    
  AT 15 MPH.  HWY 285 AND 385 SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON HAVE HAD HEAVY RAIN
  IN PREVIOUS DAYS AND MAY BE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  BAKERSFIELD...IMPERIAL...AND FORT STOCKTON

DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES.

LAT...LON 3085 10334 3037 10279 3086 10200 3128 10290

$$

3 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS74 KMAF 102319
FFSMAF
TXC371-110215-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
619 PM CDT FRI OCT 10 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR PECOS COUNTY UNTIL 945 PM 
CDT...

AT 601 PM CDT...THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY REPORTED STREET 
FLOODING IN FORT STOCKTON WITH UP TO ONE FOOT OF WATER COVERING SOME 
STREETS.

AT 605 PM CDT...THE FORT STOCKTON PD REPORTED BOTH U.S. HIGHWAYS 385 
AND 285 WERE UNDER WATER SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON.  

AT 616 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
DETECT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH A LINE OF STORMS CENTERED 22 MILES 
SOUTHWEST OF BAKERSFIELD. THE STORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVY RAINFALL 
WERE MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. 

DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES.

LAT...LON 3128 10295 3062 10333 3009 10260 3031 10260
          3032 10239 3064 10239 3064 10219 3069 10215
          3070 10180 3109 10238 3128 10265

$$

000 
WGUS74 KMAF 110011
FFSMAF
TXC371-110245-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
711 PM CDT FRI OCT 10 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR PECOS COUNTY UNTIL 945 PM 
CDT...

AT 710 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A LINE 
OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM 26 MILES 
SOUTHEAST OF FORT STOCKTON TO 35 MILES SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON. RADAR 
ESTIMATES SUGGEST UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE AREA 
ROUGHLY 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT STOCKTON. RUN OFF AND CONTINUED 
HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE AREA MAY RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING OF FARM TO 
MARKET ROAD 2023...HIGHWAY 285...AND PERHAPS INTERSTATE 10.

DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOWING 
WATER IN A CAR OR ON FOOT.

LAT...LON 3127 10299 3062 10333 3009 10260 3031 10260
          3032 10239 3064 10239 3064 10219 3069 10215
          3070 10180 3103 10236 3126 10266

$$

000 
WGUS74 KMAF 110245
FFSMAF
TXC371-110300-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
945 PM CDT FRI OCT 10 2003

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR PECOS COUNTY IS BEING ALLOWED TO 
EXPIRE AT 945 PM CDT...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS ENDING
ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME 
MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AREAS ALONG 
U.S. HIGHWAY 285 SOUTHEAST OF FORT STOCKTON AND FARM TO MARKET ROAD 
2023. HOWEVER...THE THREAT OF ADDITIONAL SERIOUS FLOODING HAS 
DIMINISHED SO THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE
FLOOD DANGERS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS.

LAT...LON 3077 10277 3064 10262 3080 10232 3098 10250

$$

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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.