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Flash Flood Warning 129, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 31, 2004, 6:49 PM CDT for Terrell 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 31, 2004, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2004, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Terrell County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 198 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 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 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 1186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 835 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMAF 312350
FFWMAF
TXC443-010245-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
649 PM CDT TUE AUG 31 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
TERRELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 945 PM CDT
* AT 648 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
A THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF SANDERSON PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN.
THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHWEST NEAR 10 MPH. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS
PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WERE LOCATED OVER DRYDEN...WITH OTHER
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF THE COUNTY. THE
MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS TO THE NORTH AT 5 TO 10 MPH.
IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE
POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS
FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF
FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.
TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 2992 10231 2984 10206 2984 10179 3034 10178
3062 10171 3058 10234 3026 10233 3025 10252
3005 10247
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 7:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Crane | 4 hr |
| Aug 31, 11:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 3:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 4:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews | 4 hr |
| Aug 31, 6:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Crane | 4 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.