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Flash Flood Warning 89, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 11, 2003, 5:53 AM CDT for Brewster County, Pecos County, Terrell 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 11, 2003, 5:53 AM CDT (10:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 11, 2003, 9:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Brewster County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Terrell County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 215 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:56 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 940 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 687 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 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 111054
FFWMAF
TXC043-371-443-111445-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
553 AM CDT SAT OCT 11 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
TERRELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 945 AM CDT
* AT 551 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECED A LARGE AREA OF
RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS SOUTHEAST OF AN ALPINE TO
FORT STOCKTON LINE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
BAKERSFIELD...CASTOLON...CHISOS BASIN...DRYDEN...GIRVIN...
LONGFELLOW...MARATHON...PANTHER JUNCTION...PERSIMMON GAP...
SANDERSON...SHEFFIELD...STUDY BUTTE...TERLINGUA...TERLINGUA RANCH
LODGE...THE TERRELL GAS PLANT...MARSICAL CANYON AND RIO GRANDE
VILLAGE
RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR WILL RESULT IN FLASH
FLOODING OF ARROYOS...DRAWS...CREEKS...AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS.
DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES. MOVE UP TO AVOID RISING WATERS.
LAT...LON 3004 10372 2920 10370 2897 10316 2987 10234
2980 10176 3067 10180 3098 10202 3108 10242
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KMAF 111422
FFSMAF
TXC043-371-443-111445-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
919 AM CDT SAT OCT 11 2003
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR PECOS...TERRELL AND BREWSTER
COUNTIES UNTIL 945 AM CDT...
AT 919 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
DETECT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SANDERSON TO IRAAN.
THESE STORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED ON US 90 BETWEEN ALPINE AND SANDERSON
WITH ADDITIONAL FLOODING POSSIBLE.
DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES.
LAT...LON 3024 10366 2890 10337 2998 10186 3086 10200
3127 10298
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 10, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 19 min |
| Oct 10, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 66 min |
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.