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Flash Flood Warning 147, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 26, 2004, 3:23 PM CDT for Culberson County, Texas. It was in force for 6 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
- Sep 26, 2004, 3:23 PM CDT (20:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 2004, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Culberson County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 204 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 786 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 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 262029 FFWMAF TXC109-270230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 323 PM CDT SUN SEP 26 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CULBERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 930 PM CDT(830 PM MDT) * AT 316 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC CONTINUED TO REPORT FLASH FLOODING FROM WIDESPREAD RAINS ALONG HIGHWAY 54 WHERE DEPTHS IN EXCESS OF 2 FEET OF WATER WERE REPORTED COVERING THE ROAD. PRECIPITATION MOTION IS TO THE NNW AT 20 MPH. 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. 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 3199 10491 3200 10402 3113 10410 3070 10490 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KMAF 262349 FFSMAF TXC109-262355- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 645 PM CDT SUN SEP 26 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CULBERSON COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE TEXAS DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION HAS REPORTED THAT EARLIER FLOODING ON HWY 54 NORTH OF VAN HORN HAS DISSIPATED. THEREFORE SINCE NO OTHER HEAVY RAIN IS THREATENING THE AREA... THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3199 10491 3200 10402 3113 10410 3070 10490 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 9:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 6 hr |
| Sep 26, 9:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 6 hr |
| Sep 26, 9:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Culberson | 6 hr |
| Sep 26, 9:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Loving, Reeves | 6 hr |
| Sep 26, 3:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Loving, Reeves | 6 hr |
| Sep 26, 4:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Gaines | 6 hr |
| Sep 26, 5:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 6 hr |
| Sep 26, 6:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard | 4 hr |
| Sep 26, 6:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews | 4 hr |
| Sep 26, 6:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ward, Winkler | 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.