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Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 8, 2004Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 8, 2004, 5:53 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. 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
Apr 8, 2004, 5:53 PM MDT (23:53 UTC)
Expired
Apr 8, 2004, 10:00 PM MDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lea County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 199 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 2004-04-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2004-04-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1478 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 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 082355
FFWMAF
NMC025-090400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
553 PM MDT THU APR 8 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 1000 PM MDT

* AT 551 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 11 MILES WEST OF
  OF CROSSROADS...OR ABOUT 23 MILES NORTHWEST OF TATUM...MOVING 
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.  OTHER THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF CROSSROADS...
  AND 10 MILES SOUTH OF TATUM.  MOVEMENT WAS ALSO NORTHEAST AT 20
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...
  CAPROCK...CROSSROADS...MCDONALD...AND TATUM.

DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.  TURN AROUND...DON/T DROWN.

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

LAT...LON 3357 10370 3340 10371 3339 10375 3297 10375
          3297 10306 3357 10305

$$
2 follow-up statements
000 
WGUS74 KMAF 090345
FFSMAF
NMC025-090400-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
938 PM MDT THU APR 8 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN LEA COUNTY
UNTIL 1000 PM MDT...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN TRACKING ACROSS
NORTHERN LEA COUNTY.  RADAR INDICATES 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS
FALLEN ALONG US 380 BETWEEN CAPROCK AND TATUM.  PERSONS TRAVELING
BETWEEN THIS LOCATION SHOULD PROCEED WITH EXTREME CAUTION.  REMEMBER
THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING ARE HARDER TO RECOGNIZE AT NIGHT AND
MOTORIST SHOULD NEVER DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS.

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

$$
000 
WGUS74 KMAF 090403
FFSMAF
NMC025-090600-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1001 PM MDT THU APR 8 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHERN LEA COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...

A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LINGER ACROSS NORTHERN LEA COUNTY...
BUT THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAS EXITED THE COUNTY.  NO FLOODING HAS
BEEN REPORTED... HOWEVER RUNOFF FROM EARLIER STORMS MAY RESULT IN
LOCALIZED FLOODING OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS THROUGH MIDNIGHT MDT.  IF
ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP OVERNIGHT THEN FLOODING WILL BE A
CONCERN.

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 8, 5:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea39 min

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.