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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 14, 2004Presidio County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 14, 2004, 3:42 PM CST for Presidio 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: Mar 14, 2004, 3:42 PM CST (21:42 UTC)
Expired: Mar 14, 2004, 6:45 PM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Presidio County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 299 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 96 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 825 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 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 142142
FFWMAF
TXC377-150045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
342 PM CST SUN MAR 14 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  PRESIDIO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 645 PM CST

* AT 342 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS
  PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF SHAFTER...OR
  ABOUT 27 MILES SOUTH OF MARFA...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  BIG BEND RANCH STATE PARK...CASA PIEDRA...MARFA...PAISANO PASS...
  PRESIDIO...RYAN AND SHAFTER

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL INUNDATE ROADS AND FARM AND RANCH LAND. DO NOT
DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOWING WATER
IN A CAR OR ON FOOT.

FLOODING IN MOUNTAINOUS AREAS IS ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. HEAVY
RAINFALL...EVEN IN THE DISTANT...CAN CREATE SUDDEN FLOWS CAPABLE OF
OVERTAKING CAMPERS AND HIKERS. SEEK HIGHER GROUND NOW

LAT...LON 2933 10404 2949 10424 2962 10450 3052 10444
          3040 10391 3040 10380 2978 10381 2928 10380

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS74 KMAF 142242
FFSMAF
TXC377-150045-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
440 PM CST SUN MAR 14 2004

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR PRESIDIO COUNTY UNTIL 645 PM...

AT 440 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
DETECT A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH
OF THE EASTERN HALF OF PRESIDIO COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST ACTIVITY WAS
LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF CASA PIEDRA. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE
OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PRESIDIO
AND ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF MARFA. MOVEMENT OF THIS AREA OF RAIN
AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS SOUTH AT AROUND 5 MPH.

DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR 
IN AUTOMOBILES. MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION...PARTICULARLY 
ALONG TEXAS 170 FROM PRESIDIO DOWNSTREAM TO REDFORD...AND ALONG U.S.
67 FROM PRESIDIO NORTH TO MARFA.

MOVE UP TO ESCAPE RISING WATER. DO NOT CROSS A FLOODED STREAM.

LAT...LON 3052 10449 2961 10447 2914 10381 3040 10380
          3040 10393

$$  

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000 
WGUS74 KMAF 150006
FFSMAF
TXC377-150045-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
600 PM CST SUN MAR 14 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR PRESIDIO COUNTY UNTIL 645 PM
CST...

AT 600 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED AN 
AREA OF LIGHT RAIN WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF 
EASTERN PRESIDIO COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR REDFORD ON 
THE MEXICAN SIDE OF THE RIO GRANDE ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF LAJITAS. 
THESE STORMS SHOWED LITTLE MOVEMENT.

THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAINFALL HAS DIMINISHED ACROSS MUCH OF PRESIDIO 
COUNTY.  HOWEVER...FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS 
WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS.  ARROYOS...CREEKS...AND LOW 
WATER CROSSINGS IN PARTICULAR WILL BE SUSCEPTIBLE TO HIGH WATER THIS 
EVENING.  MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION IF TRAVELING ALONG U.S. 
67 BETWEEN MARFA AND PRESIDIO...AND ALONG TEXAS 170 FROM LAJITAS 
UPSTREAM TO PRESIDIO.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE
FLOOD DANGERS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS.

LAT...LON 2931 10403 2949 10425 2959 10445 3050 10444
          3038 10383 2927 10380

$$  

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 14, 12:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	51 min
Mar 14, 1:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis	49 min
Mar 14, 2:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Presidio	58 min
Mar 14, 3:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Presidio	59 min

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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.