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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 21, 2004, 7:34 PM CDT for Howard 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 21, 2004, 7:34 PM CDT (00:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 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 Howard County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 80 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
- 547 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3207 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 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 220034 FFWMAF TXC227-220330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 734 PM CDT MON JUN 21 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HOWARD COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 728 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BIG SPRING. FLASH FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN THE CITY OF BIG SPRING...WILL BE LIKELY. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. LAT...LON 3251 10169 3210 10169 3210 10119 3251 10121 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KMAF 220128 FFSMAF TXC227-220330- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 828 PM CDT MON JUN 21 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR HOWARD COUNTY... FLOODING OF CITY STREETS HAS BEEN REPORTED IN BIG SPRING. AT 745 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A VEHICLE WAS WASHED OFF OF THE ROADWAY WITH WATER RESCUES UNDERWAY. AT 826 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DEPICTED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER SOUTHERN HOWARD COUNTY. DANGEROUS FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE ALONG HIGHWAY 87 SOUTH OF BIG SPRING. LAT...LON 3251 10168 3210 10168 3210 10119 3251 10121 $$
000 WGUS74 KMAF 220235 FFSMAF TXC227-220330- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 929 PM CDT MON JUN 21 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR HOWARD COUNTY... AT 928 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED SWIFT WATER FLOWING ACROSS FM 33 NEAR ELBOW CREEK...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF BIG SPRING. FM 33 IS IMPASSABLE WITH CARS REPORTED STUCK IN THIS FLASH FLOOD AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL HAVE REQUESTED THAT RESIDENTS AVOID TRAVELING THROUGH THIS AREA. FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3251 10169 3210 10169 3210 10119 3251 10121 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 61 min |
| Jun 21, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 41 min |
Nearby
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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.