Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 111, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 17, 2004, 3:09 PM CDT for Jeff Davis County, Texas. It was in force for 3 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
- Aug 17, 2004, 3:09 PM CDT (20:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2004, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jeff Davis County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 228 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1358 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 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 172011
FFWMAF
TXC243-172315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
309 PM CDT TUE AUG 17 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
JEFF DAVIS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 615 PM CDT
* AT 306 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING
FROM A THUNDERSTORM IN FORT DAVIS...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FORT DAVIS...
RURAL AREAS IN THE FORT DAVIS VICINTY...
FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...STREETS...AND LOW WATER
CROSSINGS IS LIKELY IN THE FORT DAVIS AREA AND OUTLYING RURAL AREAS. DO
NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 3048 10410 3046 10375 3067 10348 3108 10411
3070 10477
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WGUS74 KMAF 172307
FFSMAF
TXC243-172315-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
558 PM CDT TUE AUG 17 2004
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR JEFF DAVIS COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO
EXPIRE AT 615 PM CDT...
AT 556 PM CDT...MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR AND PUBLIC REPORTS HAVE
INDICATED THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WITH ASSOCIATED HEAVY RAINS
HAVE EXITED JEFF DACIS COUNTY.
THE EARLIER HEAVY RAINS THAT RESULTED IN FLOODING OF ARROYOS AND
DRAWS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS HAVE GRADUALLY SUBSIDED.
THE POTENTIAL REMAINS FOR MORE THUNDERSTORMS...ASSOCIATED HEAVY
RAINS AND LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING LATER THIS EVENING.
REMEMBER...NEVER DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. TURN AROUND...DONT
DROWN THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN.
TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 3048 10410 3046 10375 3067 10348 3108 10411
3070 10477
$$000
WGUS74 KMAF 172314
FFSMAF
TXC389-180230-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
608 PM CDT TUE AUG 17 2004
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR REEVES
COUNTY...
AT 601 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
HAVE REPORTED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING IN THE CITY OF
PECOS. OVER ONE INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE CITY OF PECOS BETWEEN
530 PM AND 600 PM. THESE HEAVY RAINS HAVE RESULTED IN WIDESPREAD
STREET FLOODING IN THE CITY OF PECOS.
ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS...ARE
DRIFTING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH FROM NEAR TOYAH AND BALMORHEA AND
SHOULD MOVE ACROSS THE CITY OF PECOS BETWEEN 630 PM AND 700 PM THIS
EVENING. FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... STREETS AND
UNDERPASSES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS
LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN
KEEP CHILDREN AWAY FROM CULVERTS...DITCHES...STORM DRAINS...AND
SWOLLEN CREEKS.
TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 3113 10407 3098 10343 3135 10307 3142 10343
3197 10400
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 5:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reeves | 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.