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Flash Flood Warning 211, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 7, 2004Jeff Davis County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 7, 2004, 6:28 PM CDT for Jeff Davis County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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
Oct 7, 2004, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
Expired
Oct 7, 2004, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
4 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), 219 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 219 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 2004-10-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 98 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2004-10-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 130 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
98 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-176 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1751 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 072328
FFWMAF
TXC243-080330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
628 PM CDT THU OCT 7 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  JEFF DAVIS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 621 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER MUCH OF JEFF DAVIS
  COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN...WITH LOCALLY
  HIGHER AMOUNTS...HAS ALREADY FALLEN ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 118 NORTH
  OF FORT DAVIS. AT 620 PM CDT...AN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIAL
  REPORTED THAT RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WAS BEGINNING TO PRODUCE
  FLOODING IN SPOTS ACROSS NORTHERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY. IN 
  ADDITION...PEA SIZED HAIL WAS COVERING THE ROAD NEAR THE MCDONALD
  OBSERVATORY.

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.

EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF ARROYOS AND DRAWS...ROADS
AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS MAY TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES
IN STEEP TERRAIN. 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 3104 10410 3081 10443 3052 10419 3041 10384
      3066 10349

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS74 KMAF 080144
FFSMAF
TXC243-080330-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
844 PM CDT THU OCT 7 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR EASTERN JEFF
DAVIS COUNTY...

AT 842 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
THAT MOST OF THE PRECIPITATION HAD COME TO AN END OVER JEFF DAVIS 
COUNTY. HOWEVER...FLOODING ACROSS THE HIGHER TERRAIN AREAS MAY STILL 
BE OCCURING AS RUNOFF FROM THE EARLIER HEAVY RAINS CONTINUES. 

PERSONS TRAVELING NORTH OF FORT DAVIS ON HIGHWAYS 118 AND 166 SHOULD 
EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION. DO NOT DRIVE OVER AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS 
THE ROAD. MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE. TURN AROUND... DONT 
DROWN.

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

LAT...LON 3104 10410 3081 10443 3052 10419 3041 10384
      3066 10349

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 7, 12:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFJeff Davis59 min
Oct 7, 12:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves62 min
Oct 7, 1:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving, Ward51 min
Oct 7, 1:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos77 min
Oct 7, 2:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWinkler42 min
Oct 7, 2:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor55 min
Oct 7, 2:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews60 min
Oct 7, 2:52 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEctor4 hr
Oct 7, 3:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland44 min
Oct 7, 3:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGlasscock50 min
Oct 7, 3:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson62 min
Oct 7, 4:24 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFDawson3 hr
Oct 7, 5:29 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos4 hr
Oct 7, 7:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEctor4 hr
Oct 7, 8:34 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos, Ward3 hr
Oct 7, 11:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos4 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.