Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2004, 8:16 PM CDT for Brewster County, Jeff Davis County, Texas. 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
- Jun 16, 2004, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2004, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 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), 223 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:19 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 2151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2475 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 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 170119
FFWMAF
TXC043-243-170515-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
816 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 1215 AM CDT
* RAINFALL FROM EARLIER THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWESTERN BREWSTER
AND SOUTHEASTERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY HAS RESULTED IN FLASH FLOODING
OVER NORTHWESTERN BREWSTER COUNTY. FORT DAVIS FIRE DEPARTMENT
REPORTS BLACK CREEK RUNNING 100 YARDS WIDE ABOUT 12 MILES NORTH OF
ALPINE. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY
RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE...CREATING ADDITIONAL HEAVY RUNOFF AND
FLASH FLOODING.
TO REPORT FLOODING... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF ARROYOS AND DRAWS...ROADS
AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS MAY TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES
IN STEEP TERRAIN. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 3045 10403 3040 10379 3009 10378 3047 10318
3080 10364
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 23 min |
| Jun 16, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 62 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.