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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 2, 2004, 1:37 PM CST 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
- Apr 2, 2004, 1:37 PM CST (19:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2004, 4:30 PM CST
- 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), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this flash flood warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1213 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 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 021939
FFWMAF
TXC415-022230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
137 PM CST FRI APR 2 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SCURRY COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 430 PM CST
* AT 134 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
FLASH FLOODING JUST EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF SNYDER...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...
THE MIDWAY COMMUNITY AND HUDD.
DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER THE
WARNED AREA. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO 2 INCHES ARE
POSSIBLE THROUGH 430 PM CST.
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.
MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE...AND MANY OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS
DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. IT IS NEVER SAFE TO DRIVE ON FLOODED
ROADS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY
AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. TURN AROUND...DON/T DROWN
TO REPORT FLOODING...CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 5 9 7 3 2 2 0.
LAT...LON 3253 10084 3252 10117 3295 10116 3295 10099
3295 10066 3253 10067
$$What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Apr 2, 11:59 AM CST, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 11:59 AM CST, 1 hour 38 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX...UPDATED 1155 AM CST FRI APR 2 2004 WENT AHEAD AND LOWERED POPS THIS AFTERNOON PER CURRENT OBSERVATIONS... TRENDS AND INCOMING DATA. NOT MUCH ACTIVITY OCCURRING ON RADAR AT THE MOMENT...THE EXCEPTION ARE SOME DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS IN THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS AND IMMEDIATE ADJACENT PLAINS AND A STRONG STORM IN NORTHERN TERRELL COUNTY IN THE LOWER TRANS PECOS. EXPECTING AN INCREASE IN DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON IN THE AFOREMENTIONED AREAS AS A SHORTWAVE ROTATES NORTHEASTWARD OUT OF OLD MEXICO INTO EXTREME SOUTHWEST TEXAS. THE STORMS SHOULD THEN TRANSLATE NORTHEASTWARD LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING THROUGH THE PERMIAN BASIN AND THE EXTREME WESTERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS. WILL CONTINUE TO MENTION SEVERE WORDING IN ZONES AND HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK AS A SIGNIFICANT DECREASE IN CLOUDS WILL INCREASE INSTABILITY ALONG WITH INCREASING WIND SHEAR ALONG AND AHEAD OF SHORTWAVE. UPPED HIGH TEMPERATURES THIS AFTERNOON A FEW DEGREES WITH MORE HEATING. UPDATED SFT/PFM HAS BEEN SENT && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. NM...NONE. && 12
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 2, 11:50 AM CST, 1 hour 47 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX...UPDATED 1150 AM CST FRI APR 2 2004 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-022100- ANDREWS-BIG BEND AREA-BORDEN-CENTRAL LEA COUNTY-CRANE- DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-DAWSON-ECTOR-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS-GAINES- GLASSCOCK-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY- HOWARD-LOVING-MARFA PLATEAU-MARTIN-MIDLAND-MITCHELL- NORTHERN LEA COUNTY-PECOS-PRESIDIO VALLEY-REAGAN- REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS-SCURRY-SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY- TERRELL-UPTON-VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR-WARD-WINKLER- 1150 AM CST (1050 AM MST) FRI APR 2 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE AREA AS A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE ROTATES NORTHEASTWARD FROM THE BIG BEND REGION INTO NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING... MAINLY ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PERMIAN BASIN SOUTHWARD TO THE LOWER TRANS PECOS AND BIG BEND REGION...GENERALLY EAST OF A JAL... PECOS...TO PERSIMMON GAP LINE. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH...HAIL GREATER THAN THE SIZE OF PENNIES...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. RAINFALL RATES COULD APPROACH OR EXCEED ONE INCH PER HOUR AND PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ARROYOS...DRAWS...AND OTHER AREAS SUSCEPTIBLE TO HIGH WATER THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING ACROSS WEST TEXAS OR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY LATER TONIGHT. HOWEVER...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THE STRONGEST STORMS TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES...AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN MIDLAND CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MAF.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 12:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 55 min |
| Apr 2, 1:23 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 3 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 52 min |
| Apr 2, 3:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 42 min |
| Apr 2, 4:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 63 min |
| Apr 2, 5:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 39 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.