Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2004, 5:22 PM CDT for Brewster County, Jeff Davis 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
- Jun 16, 2004, 5:22 PM CDT (22:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2004, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Brewster County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 224 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 224 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1093 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -462 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1437 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMAF 162222
FFWMAF
TXC043-243-170115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
522 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
SOUTHEASTERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 815 PM CDT
* AT 519 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTH OF ALPINE...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.
TO REPORT FLOODING... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE
POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS
FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF
FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.
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 OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 3046 10414 3041 10380 3016 10379 3050 10323
3087 10372
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 56 min |
| Jun 16, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 43 min |
| Jun 16, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 42 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.