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Flash Flood Warning 152, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

September 26, 2004Ector County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 26, 2004, 5:16 PM CDT for Ector 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, 5:16 PM CDT (22:16 UTC)
Expired
Sep 26, 2004, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ector County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 37 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2004-09-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 137 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2004-09-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
137 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
690 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 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 262218
FFWMAF
TXC135-270415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
516 PM CDT SUN SEP 26 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ECTOR COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT

* AT 513 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED    
  WIDESPREAD MODERATE RAINFALL OVER ODESSA CAPABLE OF PRODUCING      
  FLASH FLOODING. THE PRECIPITATION IS MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH.

TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.

LAT...LON 3208 10278 3208 10230 3166 10230 3166 10278

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS74 KMAF 270132
FFSMAF
TXC135-270415-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
822 PM CDT SUN SEP 26 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1115 PM CDT FOR ECTOR
COUNTY...

AT 820 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED FLOODING OCCURRING 
ON A NUMBER OF ROADS IN THE ODESSA AREA.  TWO FEET OF WATER WAS 
OBSERVED ON TOM GREEN AND MUSKEEGUM BETWEEN 15TH AND 8TH STREETS.  
ALSO 11TH AND 12TH STREETS WERE IMPASSABLE WITH 3 FEET OF WATER AT 
TOM GREEN AND MUSKEEGUM.  IN ADDITION... TWO FEET OF WATER WAS 
OBSERVED AT THE INTERSECTION OF MEADOW AND MURPHY. 

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. 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 3208 10278 3208 10230 3166 10230 3166 10278

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 26, 9:06 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFJeff Davis6 hr
Sep 26, 9:39 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBrewster6 hr
Sep 26, 9:40 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFCulberson6 hr
Sep 26, 9:47 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLoving, Reeves6 hr
Sep 26, 3:23 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFCulberson6 hr
Sep 26, 3:41 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLoving, Reeves6 hr
Sep 26, 4:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFGaines6 hr
Sep 26, 6:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFHoward4 hr
Sep 26, 6:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFAndrews4 hr
Sep 26, 6:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFWard, Winkler4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.