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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 15, 2004Jeff Davis County, Reeves County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 15, 2004, 9:58 PM CDT for Jeff Davis County, Reeves 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 15, 2004, 9:58 PM CDT (02:58 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 2004, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Jeff Davis County, TX, Reeves County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 231 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:58 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 230 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 2004-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 456 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 2004-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
456 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-118 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1818 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 160300
FFWMAF
TXC243-389-160600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
958 PM CDT SAT MAY 15 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 100 AM CDT

* AT 947 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED    
  FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTH OF                
  VALENTINE...OR   ABOUT 31 MILES SOUTHEAST OF VAN HORN...MOVING     
  EAST AT 10 MPH.  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT OVER 2 INCHES OF     
  RAINFALL HAS FALLEN IN PARTS OF JEFF DAVIS COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON   
  EVENING.  THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORMING AND MOVING INTO WESTERN JEFF   
  DAVIS COUNTY...WHICH WILL PRODUCE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  FORT DAVIS...

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

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.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA... MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND
IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS... CREEKS... AND OTHER
LOW LYING AREAS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND
PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF
UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE.

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

LAT...LON 3065 10495 3108 10414 3098 10382 3067 10346
          3046 10371 3041 10391

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS74 KMAF 160507
FFSMAF
TXC243-389-160600-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1206 AM CDT SUN MAY 16 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR CENTRAL JEFF
DAVIS AND SOUTHWESTERN REEVES COUNTIES...

AT 1203 AM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAVE 
MOVED EAST OF JEFF DAVIS AND SOUTHWESTERN REEVES COUNTY. HOWEVER... 
AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN FELL OVER EASTERN JEFF DAVIS 
COUNTY...OR 10 MILES NORTH OF FORT DAVIS ALONG TEXAS ROUTE 17 IN THE 
PAST HOUR. NEARLY 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER SOUTHWESTERN 
REEVES COUNTY IN THE LAST THREE HOURS. 

THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL SLOW RUNOFF...ESPECIALLY OVER 
LOCATIONS THAT RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL EARLY THIS EVENING. 
THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 100 AM CDT.  
MINOR FLOODING OF STREAMS...DRAWS...LOW WATER CROSSINGS...AND OTHER 
LOW LYING AREAS WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR SEVERAL MORE HOURS.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 3070 10469 3054 10412 3055 10371 3094 10362 
          3120 10370 3125 10393

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 8:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPresidio59 min
May 15, 8:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPresidio54 min
May 15, 11:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFJeff Davis44 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.