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Flash Flood Warning 152, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
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.
- 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
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.
| 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, 3:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Culberson | 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, 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
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.