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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 11, 2004Scurry County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 11, 2004, 7:36 PM CDT for Scurry 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 11, 2004, 7:36 PM CDT (00:36 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 2004, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Scurry County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 149 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 00:00Z on 2004-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1403 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 00:00Z on 2004-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 89 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
1403 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2153 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.2

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 120038
FFWMAF
TXC415-120330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
736 PM CDT TUE MAY 11 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN SCURRY COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 734 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
  THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING NEAR THE MIDWAY
  COMMUNITY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF SNYDER...MOVING EAST AT 10
  MPH.  OTHER THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WERE
  LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF SNYDER.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  THE MIDWAY COMMUNITY...

DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.

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

LAT...LON 3290 10117 3263 10117 3263 10067 3294 10067

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 11, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFScurry41 min

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.