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Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 10, 2004Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 2004, 5:12 PM CDT for Pecos 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: May 10, 2004, 5:12 PM CDT (22:12 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2004, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 316 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -317 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1730 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 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 102214
FFWMAF
TXC371-110115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
512 PM CDT MON MAY 10 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 510 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
  FLASH FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS NEAR BELDING...TO 5 MILES
  SOUTH OF BELDING NEAR CHANCELLOR. THE STORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BELDING...
  CHANCELLOR...
  RURAL CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY...
  ROUTE 385...10 TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON 

FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... LOW WATER CROSSINGS...
NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY.
DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.

TO REPORT FLOODING... HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
MIDLAND.

LAT...LON 3068 10330 3031 10284 3056 10263 3094 10302

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KMAF 102357
FFSMAF
TXC371-110115-
/..000000T0000Z-040511T0115Z/

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
650 PM CDT MON MAY 10 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN PECOS
COUNTY...

AT 650 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LARGE AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS
ACROSS SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING 1 TO 2 INCHES
OF RAINFALL PER HOUR...WILL AFFECT HIGHWAY 285...U.S. HIGHWAY 90
AND LONGFELLOW ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN PECOS COUNTY THROUGH 815 PM CDT.

IN ADDITION LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY 
DIMINISH WEST OF THESE STORMS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY...
INCLUDING BELDING AND CHANCELLOR AND ADJACENT HIGHWAY 385 THROUGH
815 PM CDT. 

FLASH FLOODING WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE DUE TO THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL.

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

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 3069 10332 3063 10334 3053 10317 3037 10298
          3012 10261 3028 10260 3033 10252 3078 10232
          3085 10303

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	62 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2004 Every 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.